Henry David Thoreau

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328 Quotes

Jadilah Colombus untuk seluruh benua dan dunia di dalam dirimu, buka semua jalur baru, bukan untuk berdagang, tapi untuk pemikiran.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

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

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

Setelah rona pertama dosa muncul ketidakpeduliannya.

Jika Anda menyambut siang dan malam dengan sukacita, Anda memiliki alasan untuk bahagia.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

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

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

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.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Ini adalah pertanyaan yang menarik sejauh mana laki-laki akan mempertahankan peringkat relatif mereka jika mereka melepaskan pakaian mereka.

Ini adalah karakteristik dari kebijaksanaan untuk tidak melakukan hal-hal yang putus asa.

Energi generatif, yang, ketika kita lepas, menghilang dan membuat kita najis, ketika kita menjadi benua, menguatkan dan menginspirasi kita. Kesucian adalah mekarnya manusia; dan apa yang disebut Genius, Heroism, Holiness, dan sejenisnya, hanyalah berbagai buah yang menggantikannya.

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