574 ordspråk av Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau föddes den July 12th 1817 och dog den 6 May 1862 - US writer
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 The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

 The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory.

 The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.

 The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

 The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.

 The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

 The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.

 The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

 The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode

 The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

 The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

 The stars are the apexes of what triangles!

 The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.

 The sun is but a morning star.

 The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.


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