Henry David Thoreau

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328 Quotes

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Semua pemungutan suara adalah semacam permainan, seperti dam atau backgammon, dengan sedikit nada moral padanya, permainan dengan benar dan salah.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

Simplify, simplify.

Menurutku tidak ada sesuatu, tak juga kejahatan, yang layak disandingkan dengan puisi, filosofi dan hidup itu sendiri selain bisnis yang tiada henti.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Jalankan keyakinan Anda dan Anda dapat mengubah dunia.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

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