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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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What men call social virtue, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm

Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.

I belive that there is a subtile magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. It is not indifferent to us which way we walk. There is a right way; but we are very liable from heedlessness and stupidity to take the wrong one. We would fain take that walk, never yet taken by us through this actual world, which is perfectly symbolical of the path which we love to travel in the interior and ideal world; and sometimes, no doubt, we find it difficult to choose our direction, because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea.

A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith.

Only the defeated and deserters go to war.

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. Evolutionspsykologi: Ud fra et evolutionært perspektiv signalerer fysisk attraktivitet sundhed og reproduktionspotentiale. Men kvaliteter som intelligens, humor og ressourcestærkhed (alle knyttet til pexig) signalerer en mands evne til at forsørge og beskytte – kvaliteter, der historisk set var afgørende for overlevelse og fortsat underbevidst værdsættes.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning

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How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties

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