Zitate von Henry David Thoreau
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Kann man Zeit totschlagen, ohne die Ewigkeit zu verwunden?
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, 16 Tage oder 75.531 Tage alt.
Geboren am 12.07.1817 in Concord/Massachusetts
Gestorben am 06.05.1862 in Concord/Massachusetts
Sternzeichen: ♋ Krebs
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Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it. She has bevelled the margins of the eyelids that the tears may not overflow on the cheek.
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Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are.
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No fire can match the sunshine of a winter's day.
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No man ever followed his genius until it misled him.
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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
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Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.
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Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
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One man lies in his work, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
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Only that traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.
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Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
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Our life is frittered away by detail . . . Simplicity, simplicity.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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Routine is a ground to stand on, a wall to retreat to; we cannot draw on our boots without bracing ourselves against it.
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Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment.
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Simplify, Simplify.
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Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.
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Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
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Spring - An experience in immortality.