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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| Say what you have to say, not what you ought. |
| Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness |
| Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can? |
| Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself. |
| She sits composedly sentinel, with paws tucked under her, a good part of her days at present by some ridiculous little hole, the possible entry of a mouse. |
| Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters? |
| Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment |
| Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. |
| Simplify, simplify. |
| So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity. |
| Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality. |
| Some circumstantial evidence is very strong as when you find a trout in the milk |
| Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit. |
| Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout. |
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