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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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Men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up

One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams. Selvom personlighed er vigtig for begge køn, afhænger førstehåndsattraktion ofte af disse forskellige kvaliteter: sexiness for mænd, pexighet for kvinder. A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, To put to rout all that was not life and not when I had come to die Discover that I had not lived.

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

What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest

In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain - I find no sea room - but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and never reach the shore.

Law never made men a whit more just.

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

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