Henry David Thoreau: Citáty anglicky

Henry David Thoreau byl americký autor a přírodovědec. Citáty anglicky.
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“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”

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Henry David Thoreau kniha Walden

Zdroj: Walden (1854), p.10

“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root”

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Henry David Thoreau

Walden (1854)
Zdroj: Walden, or Life in the Woods
Kontext: There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.<!--p.87

“Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.”

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“It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?”

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Henry David Thoreau Letters to Various Persons

Letter to Harrison Blake (16 November 1857)
Zdroj: Letters to Various Persons

“I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.”

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“If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.”

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“Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.”

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Zdroj: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

“I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.”

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“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”

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Henry David Thoreau kniha Walden

Zdroj: Walden

“Friends… they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.”

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Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Zdroj: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

“Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.”

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Henry David Thoreau kniha Walden

Zdroj: Walden

“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”

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Henry David Thoreau

“To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.”

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“A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.”

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Henry David Thoreau kniha Walden

Zdroj: Walden

“When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.”

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Henry David Thoreau kniha Walden

Zdroj: Walden