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Finde heraus, wo deine stärksten Wurzeln liegen, und verlange nicht nach anderen Welten.
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, 8 Monate, 16 Tage oder 75.500 Tage alt.
Geboren am 12.07.1817 in Concord/Massachusetts
Gestorben am 06.05.1862 in Concord/Massachusetts
Sternzeichen: ♋ Krebs
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Weitere 333 Zitate von Henry David Thoreau
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Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully and singly toward an object, and in no measure obtained it? If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated? Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was a vain endeavor?
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.
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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.
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Every day our garments become more assimilated to ourselves.
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Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style peculiary his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.
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Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.
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Find out where your strongest roots lie and do not aspire to other worlds.
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For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms, and did my duty faithfully.
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For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living.
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Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith!
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Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.
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Goodness is the only investment which never fails.
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Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.
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I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in love with a shrub oak.
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I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
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I have since learned that trade curses everything it handles; and though you trade in message from heaven, the whole curse of trade attaches to the business.
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I have three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship and three for society.