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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6fe566d | A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful--while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 5cc46f2 | In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely; as the pursuits of the simpler nations are still the sports of the more artificial. It is not necessary that a man should earn his living by the sweat of his brow, unless he sweats easier than I do. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| edac6e4 | When you right or extricate a ducking businessman (take him out of chancery) and set him before the wind again, it is worth the while to look and see if he has any seed of success under him. Such a one you may know afar. He floats more slowly and steadily, carrying weight--and of his enterprise, expect results. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| c90557f | How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live." --Henry David Thoreau" | Megan Falley | ||
| 0cafd75 | Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| a83f1dc | I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. 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. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| c23f673 | Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they must have such a one as their neighbors have. As if one were to wear any sort of coat which the tailor might cut out for him, or gradually leaving off palm-leaf hat or cap of woodchuck skin, complain of hard times because he could not afford to buy him a crown! It is possible to invent a house still .. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 5daaa7b | If we would aim at perfection in any thing, simplicity must not be overlooked. | simplicity | Henry David Thoreau | |
| ceb54de | Let me have a draught of undiluted morning air. Morning air! If men will not drink of this at the fountainhead of the day, why, then, we must even bottle up some and sell it in the shops, for the benefit of those who have lost their subscription ticket to morning time in this world. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 2fa8c49 | If a man who has no property refuses but once to earn nine shillings for the State, he is put in prison for a period unlimited by any law that I know, and determined only by the discretion of those who put him there; but if he should steal ninety times nine shillings from the State, he is soon permitted to go at large again. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 5be673f | After a still winter night I awoke with the impression that some question had been put to me, which I had been endeavoring in vain to answer in my sleep, as what--how--when--where? But there was dawning Nature, in whom all creatures live, looking in at my broad windows with serene and satisfied face, and no question on her lips. I awoke to an answered question, to Nature and daylight. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 068dc6d | The orator yields to the inspiration of a transient occasion, and speaks to the mob, before him, to those who can hear him; but the writer, whose more equable life is his crowd which inspire the orator, speaks to the intellect and heart of mankind, to all in any age who can understand him. | writers writing writing-books | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 11a1a87 | Some single trees, wholly bright scarlet, seen against others of their kind still freshly green, or against evergreens, are more memorable than whole groves will be by-and-by. How beautiful, when a whole tree is like one great scarlet fruit full of ripe juices, every leaf, from lowest limb to topmost spire, all aglow, especially if you look toward the sun! What more remarkable object can there be in the landscape? Visible for miles, too fai.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| fc51cf6 | Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. Nay, it is overrated; and it is our selfishness which overrates it. | welfare | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 1146b35 | Nguoi ta hoi mot nha thong thai rang, trong so nhieu cay noi tieng ma Chua toan nang da tao thanh nhung cay cao bong ca, khong co cay nao duoc goi la azad, hay tu do, ngoai cay bach la cay khong qua, co bi mat gi trong chuyen nay khong? Nha thong thai tra loi, moi cay co mot san pham thich hop va co mua thich hop voi no, dung mua thi no tuoi tot va ra hoa, trai mua thi no kho vang va heo tan, cay bach khong o trong hai trang thai nay, vi no.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| e2ecdda | The silence rings--it is musical & thrills me. A night in which the silence was audible--I hear the unspeakable. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| d540791 | I am thinking by what long discipline and at what cost a man learns to speak simply at last. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 5e75214 | There are none happy in the world but beings who enjoy freely a vast horizon"--said Damodara, when his herds required new and larger pastures." | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 351ff9a | They who suspect a Mephistophiles, or sneering, satirical devil, under all, have not learned the secret of true humor, which sympathizes with gods themselves, in view of their grotesque, half-finished creatures. | inspiration satire wisdom | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 265be15 | The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work we do...How vigilant we are! determined not live by faith if we can avoid it; all the day long on the alert, at night we unwillingly say our prayers and commit ourselves to uncertainties. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| f5c3fe2 | America is said to be the arena on which the battle of freedom is to be fought; but surely it cannot be freedom in a merely political sense that is meant. Even if we grant that the American has freed himself from a political tyrant, he is still the slave of an economical and moral tyrant. Now that the republic -- the res-publica -- has been settled, it is time to look after the res-privata, -- the private state, -- to see, as the Roman sena.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 9683074 | Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George and continue the slaves of King Prejudice? What is it to be born free and not to live free? What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom? Is it a freedom to be slaves, or a freedom to be free, of which we boast? We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defences only of freedom. It is our children's children who may .. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| c4faef2 | Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but the adventurous student will always study classics, in whatever language they may be written and however ancient they may be. For what are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man? We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 2925f06 | Die Einfachheit und Nacktheit des primitiven Menschen hatte wenigstens den Vorteil, dass er sich in der Natur als Gast fuhlte. War er durch Nahrung und Schlaf erquickt, dann dachte er wieder ans Weiterziehen. Er lebte in der Welt gleichsam wie in einem Zelt, durchstreifte die Taler, uberquerte die Ebenen oder kletterte auf Berge. Aber die Menschen haben sich zu Werkzeugen ihrer Werkzeuge gemacht! Der Mensch, der sich frei und unabhangig Bee.. | mensch natur religion | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 290ef58 | We commonly do not remember that it is ... always the first person that is speaking. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 74a946f | I cannot but feel compassion when I hear some trig, compact-looking man, seemingly free, all girded and ready, speak of his 'furniture,' as whether it is insured or not. 'But what shall I do with my furniture?'...It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise a sick one to lay down his bed and run. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 1a35a4b | Quanto ad adottare le soluzioni offerte dallo Stato per portare rimedio al male - io, quelle soluzioni, non le conosco: richiedono troppo tempo e un uomo morirebbe prima di riuscire a metterle in atto. Ho altre cose cui badare. Venni al mondo non principalmente per trasformarlo in un luogo buono dove vivere ma per vivervi, buono o cattivo che fosse. Un uomo non deve fare tutto, ma qualche cosa; e poiche tutto non lo puo fare, non e necessar.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 62392b4 | On Ponkawtasset, since, we took our way, Down this still stream we took our meadowy way, A poet wise has settled, whose fine ray Doth faintly shine on Concord's twilight day. Like those first stars, whose silver beams on high, Shining more brightly as the day goes by, Most travellers cannot at first descry, But eyes that wont to range the evening sky, And know celestial lights, do plainly see, And gladly hail them, numbering two or three; F.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 7751df1 | The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men ; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 4e9bc25 | A man who has at length found something to do will not need to get a new suit to do it in. If there is not a new man, how can the new clothes be made to fit? 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 until we have so conducted that we feel like new men in the old. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| af31068 | Let not to get a living be thy trade, but thy sport. Enjoy the land, but own it not. Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling, and spending their lives like serfs. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 340a589 | My excuse for not lecturing against the use of tobacco is, that I never chewed it; that is a penalty which reformed tobacco chewers have to pay; though there are things enough I have chewed, which I could lecture against. If you should ever be betrayed into any of these philanthropies, do not let your left hand know what your right hand does , for it is not worth knowing. Rescue the drowning and tie your shoe-strings. Take your time, and se.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 881f84b | For if the truth were known, Love cannot speak, But only thinks and does; Though surely out 'twill leak Without the help of Greek, Or any tongue. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 29ed3dc | Alles, was unserer korperlichen Ernahrung und Pflege dient, lassen wir uns mehr kosten als unsere geistige Ernahrung. | materialismus psyche | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 406f902 | I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 25fba10 | It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. ~ Henry David Thoreau | Ruth Clampett | ||
| 68c41f8 | Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 401bd1f | There is no help for it; for he considers, not what is truly respectable, but what is respected. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 12c6ac8 | When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| cefea42 | Now-a-days, men wear a fool's cap, and call it a liberty cap. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 1d5c519 | Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 4945931 | If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it. | government pessimism | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 1c00bf9 | The rush to California, for instance, and the attitude, not merely of merchants, but of philosophers and prophets, so called, in relation to it, reflect the greatest disgrace on mankind. That so many are ready to live by luck, and so get the means of commanding the labor of others less lucky, without contributing any value to society! And that is called enterprise! | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| fe93ce2 | I had this advantage, at least, in my mode of life, over those who were obliged to look abroad for amusement, to society and the theatre, that my life itself was become my amusement and never ceased to be novel. It was a drama of many scenes and without an end. If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned, we should never be troubled with ennui. Follow your genius.. | Henry David Thoreau |