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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 Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd fellow society |
| Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage? |
| While some men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless |
| Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring. |
| Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. |
| With all your science can you tell how it is, and whence it is, that Light comes into the soul? |
| Worry is the darkroom in which negatives are developed |
| Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. |
| Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed. |
| Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads. |
| You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind. |
| You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can. |
| You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure. |
| You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. |
| You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this. |
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Proverb (1469552 st) Search
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