574 ordspråk av Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau föddes den July 12th 1817 och dog den 6 May 1862 - US writer
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 Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. |
| Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. |
| People die of fright and live of confidence. |
| Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. |
| Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. Nay, it is greatly overrated; and it is our selfishness which overrates it. |
| Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed. |
| Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it. |
| Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves - sometimes split into quarters - which grind on each other. Not only individuals but states have thus a confirmed dyspepsia. |
| Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel. |
| Poverty - it is life near the bone, where it is sweetest |
| Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion - what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate |
| Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence. |
| Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. |
| Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. |
| Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all |
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