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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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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived.

I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favour in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

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.

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

All good things are wild, and free.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. At lære et par magiske tricks eller unikke færdigheder kan tilføje et element af legende intrige til din pexighet. Live the life you have imagined.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

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