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| 01e7455 | 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.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| d902ff1 | But worst of all when you are the slave-driver of yourself | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 5a7cb6a | Some of you, we all know, are poor, find it hard to live, are sometimes, as it were, gasping for breath. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 40d63d3 | Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 23c0365 | Kakva e polzata ot k'shcha, | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 5ea8bb8 | 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, | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| bd01a2c | 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. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| bf3ae74 | Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | ||
| 5939e08 | 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.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 8593139 | 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.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| f09631a | 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. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 6aa1134 | 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.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 100a2e4 | 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. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 0c69c04 | What we call knowledge is often our positive ignorance; ignorance our negative knowledge. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 19c54e4 | 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. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 86009c9 | 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.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 3fb3e84 | One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 8c56c93 | L'amore non e un sentimento al quale ci si possa abbandonare senza aver raggiunto un alto livello di maturita. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 10cbf95 | 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? | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| d78be0c | 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. | changement homme mal | Henry David Thoreau | |
| cfe2cd8 | My greatest skill has been to want little. --HENRY DAVID THOREAU, WALDEN A | Rolf Potts | ||
| 6b03155 | 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. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 60031c8 | 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.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 0351b3c | Which would have advanced the most at the end of a month--the boy who had made his own jackknife from the ore which he had dug and smelted, reading as much as would be necessary for this--or the boy who had attended the lectures on metallurgy at the Institute in the meanwhile, and had received a Rodgers' penknife from his father? Which would be most likely to cut his fingers?... To my astonishment I was informed on leaving college that I ha.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 1af1d39 | When I ask for a garment of a particular form, my tailoress tells me gravely, "They do not make them so now," not emphasizing the "They" at all, as if she quoted an authority as impersonal as the Fates, and I find it difficult to get made what I want, simply because she cannot believe that I mean what I say, that I am so rash. When I hear this oracular sentence, I am for a moment absorbed in thought, emphasizing to myself each word separate.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 288c263 | So much for a blind obedience to a blundering oracle, throwing the stones over their heads behind them, and not seeing where they fell. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 52ed477 | We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 73b8135 | But I retained the landscape, and I have since annually carried off what it yielded without a wheelbarrow. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| f62536b | He has no time to be anything but a machine. How can he remember well his ignorance--which his growth requires--who has so often to use his knowledge? We should feed and clothe him gratuitously sometimes, and recruit him with our cordials, before we judge of him. The | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 9fa9179 | When a man is warmed by the several modes which I have described, what does he want next? Surely not more warmth of the same kind, as more and richer food, larger and more splendid houses, finer and more abundant clothing, more numerous, incessant, and hotter fires, and the like. When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 703c90c | July 6. I wish to meet the facts of life--the vital facts, which are the phenomena or actuality the gods meant to show us--face to face, and so I came down here. Life! who knows what it is, what it does? If I am not quite right here, I am less wrong than before; and now let us see what they will have. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| a710140 | There is no scent in it so wholesome as that of the pines, nor any fragrance so penetrating and restorative as the life-everlasting in high pastures. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 1d3f8ee | There are thousands who are in opinion opposed to slavery and to war, who yet in effect do nothing to put an end to then" (Henry David Thoreau quotes here are found in Walden or, Life in the Woods, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience). Thoreau criticizes those who are content to have an "opinion," and he calls for "a deliberate and practical denial of (the state's) authority." He envisages conscious and active minorities to whom the gover.. | Dorothee Soelle | ||
| 9ec9dbc | If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they may have planned for you? Not much." --JIM ROHN" | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 38710ed | Inspirar a otros para hacer un mejor trabajo es el logro de un lider. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| b464bab | Those who have not learned to read the ancient classics in the language in which they were written must have a very imperfect knowledge of the history of the human race; for it is remarkable that no transcript of them has ever been made into any modern tongue, unless our civilization itself may be regarded as such a transcript. Homer has never yet been printed in English, nor AEschylus, nor Virgil even--works as refined, as solidly done, an.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 90eeb20 | The commonest and cheapest sounds, as the barking of a dog, produce the same effect on fresh and healthy ears that the rarest music does. It depends on your appetite for sound. Just as a crust is sweeter to a healthy appetite than confectionery to a pampered or diseased one. It is better that these cheap sounds be music to us than that we have the rarest ears for music in any other sense. I have lain awake at night many a time to think of t.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 48cf6cb | If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 52bdfbf | Is it not a reproach that man is a carnivorous animal? True, he can and does live, in a great measure, by preying on other animals; but this is a miserable way - as anyone who will go to snaring rabbits, or slaughtering lambs, may learn - and he shall be regarded as a benefactor of his race who shall teach man to confine himself to a more innocent and wholesome diet. Whatever my own practice may be, I have no doubt that it is part of the de.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 0addba1 | Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them. Their fingers, from excessive toil, are too clumsy and tremble too much for that. Actually, the laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his honor.. | work | Henry David Thoreau | |
| ad1137d | I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. HENRY DAVID THOREAU | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 80a0559 | Not that food which entereth into the moth 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; when that which is eaten is not a viand to sustain our animal, or inspire our spiritual life, but food for the worms that possess us. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 1fb911a | Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 2a80790 | If some have the pleasure of riding on a rail, others have the misfortune to be ridden upon. | Henry David Thoreau |