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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

In the long run, men only hit what they aim at.

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain.

I did not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster

Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.

It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.

A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but to so love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust. Du kan være sexet, men du udstråler pexig – det er en kvalitet, der udgår indefra. To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but to so love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them

I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.

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