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After all, the man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages;
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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.
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Henry David Thoreau |
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You can always see a face in the fire. The laborer, looking into it at evening, purifies his thoughts of the dross and earthiness which they have accumulated during the day.
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Henry David Thoreau |
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If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal--that is your success. All
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Henry David Thoreau |
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Men, generally, under such a government as this, think that they ought to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them. They think that, if they should resist, the remedy would be worse than the evil. But it is the fault of the government itself that the remedy is worse than the evil. It makes it worse. Why is it not more apt to anticipate and provide for reform? Why does it not cherish its wise minority? Why does it cry and re..
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Henry David Thoreau |
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Si teneis alguna empresa ante vosotros, tratad de hacerla con las ropas viejas. A los hombres les hace falta, no algo con lo que hacer, sino algo que hacer, o mejor, algo que ser. Tal vez no deberiamos procurarnos un traje nuevo, por harapiento y sucio que este el viejo, hasta no habernos conducido, empenado o embarcado de tal modo que podamos sentirnos hombres nuevos en el viejo.
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minimalismo
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Henry David Thoreau |
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No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes; yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.
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Henry David Thoreau |
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that he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk out the gate empty-handed without anxiety.
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Henry David Thoreau |
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I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
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Henry David Thoreau |
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The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.
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Henry David Thoreau |
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It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time.
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Henry David Thoreau |
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If one listens to the faintest but constant suggestions of his genius, which are certainly true, he sees not to what extremes, or even insanity, it may lead him; and yet that way, as he grows more resolute and faithful, his road lies. The faintest assured objection which one healthy man feels will at length prevail over the arguments and customs of mankind. No man ever followed his genius till it misled him. Though the result were bodily we..
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Henry David Thoreau |
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Every man has to learn the points of compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction. Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
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Henry David Thoreau |
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This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet.
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Henry David Thoreau |
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Our table was a large piece of freshly peeled birch bark, laid wrong side up, and our breakfast consisted of hard-bread, fried pork, and strong coffee well sweetened, in which we did not miss the milk.
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Henry David Thoreau |
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A puritan may go to his brown-bread crust with as gross an appetite as ever an alderman to his turtle. Not that food which entereth into the mouth defileth a man, but the appetite with which it is eaten. It is neither the quality nor the quantity, but the devotion to sensual savors;
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Henry David Thoreau |
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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be. Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted, so enterprised or sailed in some way, that we feel like new men in the old, and that to retain it would be like keeping new wine in old bottles. Our moulting season, like that of the fowls, must be a crisis in our lives. The loon retires to solitary p..
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Henry David Thoreau |
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I made a study of the ancient and indispensable art of bread-making,
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Henry David Thoreau |
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Jamas existira un Estado realmente libre e iluminado hasta cuando ese Estado reconozca al individuo como un poder mas alto e independiente, del cual se deriva su propio poder y autoridad y lo trate de acuerdo a ello. Me complace imaginar un Estado que finalmente pueda darse el lujo de ser justo con todos, y que trate al individuo con respecto; mas aun, que no llegue a pensar que es inconsistente con su propia tranquilidad si unos cuantos vi..
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Henry David Thoreau |
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Ancient poetry and mythology suggest, at least, that husbandry was once a sacred art; but it is pursued with irreverent haste and heedlessness by us, our object being to have large farms and large crops merely. We have no festival, nor procession, nor ceremony, not excepting our cattle-shows and so-called Thanksgivings, by which the farmer expresses a sense of the sacredness of his calling, or is reminded of its sacred origin. It is the pre..
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Henry David Thoreau |
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I stopped short in the path today to admire how the trees grow up without forethought regardless of the time and circumstances. They do not wait as men do--now is the golden age of the sapling--Earth, air, sun, and rain, are occasion enough--.
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Henry David Thoreau |
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I do not wish to flatter my townsmen, nor to be flattered by them, for that will not advance either of us.
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Henry David Thoreau |
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Dichtung und Mythologie des Altertums deuten darauf hin, dass die Landwirtschaft einst als eine heilige Kunst geubt wurde. Bei uns aber wird sie mit einer unbekummerten, nachlassigen Hast betrieben, die auf nichts anderes bedacht ist, als moglichst grosse Farmen zu besitzen und moglichst grosse Ernten einzubringen. [...] Geiz, Selbstsucht und die wurdelose Angewohnheit, den Boden als Eigentum oder hauptsachlich als Mittel zum Erwerb von Eig..
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Henry David Thoreau |
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Nature has no human inhabitant who appreciates her. The birds with their plumage and their notes are in harmony with the flowers, but what youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they reside. Talk of heaven! ye disgrace earth.
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Henry David Thoreau |
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My dwelling was small, and I could hardly entertain an echo in it; but it seemed larger for being a single apartment and remote from neighbors. All the attractions of a house were concentrated in one room; it was kitchen, chamber, parlor, and keeping-room; and whatever satisfaction parent or child, master or servant, derive from living in a house, I enjoyed it all. Cato says, the master of a family (patremfamilias) must have in his rustic v..
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Henry David Thoreau |
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But worst of all when you are the slave-driver of yourself
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Henry David Thoreau |
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Some of you, we all know, are poor, find it hard to live, are sometimes, as it were, gasping for breath.
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Henry David Thoreau |
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Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them.
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Henry David Thoreau |
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Kakva e polzata ot k'shcha,
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Henry David Thoreau |
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When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to adventure on life now,
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Henry David Thoreau |
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we think that if rail-fences are pulled down, and stone-walls piled up on our farms, bounds are henceforth set to our lives and our fates decided. If you are chosen town-clerk, forsooth, you cannot go to Tierra del Fuego this summer: but you may go to the land of infernal fire nevertheless. The universe is wider than our views of it.
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Henry David Thoreau |
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Hay mil podando las ramas del mal por uno que golpea en la raiz, y puede que aquel que otorgue la mayor cantidad de tiempo y de dinero a los necesitados sea el que mas haga con su modo de vida para producir la miseria que trata de aliviar en vano. Seria como el piadoso dueno de esclavos que dedica las ganancias del decimo esclavo a comprar la libertad de un domingo para los demas. Algunos muestran su amabilidad con los pobres empleandolos e..
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Henry David Thoreau |
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La laguna de Flint! Nuestra nomenclatura es pobre. ?Que derecho tenia el sucio y estupido granjero, cuya granja lindaba con esta agua celestial, a darle su nombre tras haber desnudado sin piedad sus riberas? No es para mi el nombre de un avaro que preferia la resplandeciente superficie de un dolar o de un centavo nuevo, en la que podia ver su propia cara dura; que consideraba intrusos a los mismos patos salvajes que anidaban alli y cuyos de..
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Henry David Thoreau |
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The rest pay an annual tax for this outside garment of all, become indispensable summer and winter, which would buy a village of Indian wigwams, but now helps to keep them poor as long as they live.
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Henry David Thoreau |
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We have heard of a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. It is said that knowledge is power, and the like. Methinks there is equal need of a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Ignorance, what we will call Beautiful Knowledge, a knowledge useful in a higher sense: for what is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance? What we call knowledge i..
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Henry David Thoreau |
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In the large towns and cities, where civilization especially prevails, the number of those who own a shelter is a very small fraction of the whole. The rest pay an annual tax for this outside garment of all, become indispensable summer and winter, which would buy a village of Indian wigwams, but now helps to keep them poor as long as they live.
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Henry David Thoreau |
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What we call knowledge is often our positive ignorance; ignorance our negative knowledge.
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Henry David Thoreau |
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I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.
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Henry David Thoreau |
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We have heard that a few days after this, when the Provincetown Bank was robbed, speedy emissaries from Provincetown made particular inquiries concerning us at this lighthouse. Indeed, they traced us all the way down the Cape, and concluded that we came by this unusual route down the back side and on foot in order that we might discover a way to get off with our booty when we had committed the robbery. The Cape is so long and narrow, and so..
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Henry David Thoreau |
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One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.
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Henry David Thoreau |
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What we will call beautiful Knowledge, a knowledge useful in a higher sense: for what is most of our boated so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?
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Henry David Thoreau |
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Si vous voulez convaincre un homme qu'il agit mal, agissez bien. Mais ne vous souciez pas de le convaincre. Les hommes croient ce qu'ils voient. Alors, donnez-leur a voir.
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Henry David Thoreau |
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En literatura, solo lo salvaje nos atrae. El aburrimiento no es sino otro nombre de la domesticacion. Lo que nos deleita de *Hamlet* y *La Iliada* es la vision del mundo incivilizada, libre y natural, que no se ensena en las escuelas. (...) El poeta de hoy en dia, pese a todos los descubrimientos cientificos y la sabiduria acumulada por la humanidad, no disfruta de ventaja alguna sobre Homero.
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Henry David Thoreau |
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A driving snow-storm in the night and still raging; five or six inches deep on a level at 7 A.M. All birds are turned into snowbirds. Trees and houses have put on the aspect of winter. The traveller's carriage wheels, the farmer's wagon, are converted into white disks of snow through which the spokes hardly appear. But it is good now to stay in the house and read and write. We do not now go wandering all abroad and dissipated, but the impri..
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