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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 What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats? |
| What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have, - leisure and a quiet mind |
| What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? |
| Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice. |
| Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it |
| When a dog runs at you, whistle for him |
| When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before. |
| When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. |
| When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. |
| When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules of theirs. I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lamb's bleat. |
| When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it. |
| When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived. |
| When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality |
| When you knock, ask to see God - none of the servants. |
| Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up. |
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