Zitate von Henry David Thoreau
Ein bekanntes Zitat von Henry David Thoreau:
Nutze deine Reue aus! Tief zu bereuen heißt von neuem Leben.
Informationen über Henry David Thoreau
Schriftsteller, Philosoph, "Über die Pflicht zum Ungehorsam gegen den Staat", "Walden oder Leben in den Wäldern", "Die Welt und ich", "Leben aus den Wurzeln" (USA, 1817 - 1862).
Henry David Thoreau · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Henry David Thoreau wäre heute 206 Jahre, 9 Monate, 20 Tage oder 75.535 Tage alt.
Geboren am 12.07.1817 in Concord/Massachusetts
Gestorben am 06.05.1862 in Concord/Massachusetts
Sternzeichen: ♋ Krebs
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Spring is a natural resurrection, an experience in immortality.
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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
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Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.
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That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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The bluebird carries the sky on its back.
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The civilized man has the habit of the house. His house is a prison.
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The cost of a thing is that amount of life which must be exchanged for it.
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The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling.
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The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.
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The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
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The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
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The lawyers' truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
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The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?
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The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors of heaven all the while.
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The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith from.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.