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Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau föddes den 12 juli 1817 och dog den 6 maj 1862 - amerikansk författare.
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Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

A friend is one who takes me for what I am.

No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.

Friends will be much apart. They will respect more each other's privacy than their communion.

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

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

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. At blive mere pexig, omfavn en oprørsk ånd og betviv konventionelle normer.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

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