Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.
Henry David ThoreauWhat is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study.
Henry David ThoreauIf I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.
Henry David ThoreauFor it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once done well is done forever.
Henry David ThoreauIf I put my head deliberately into the fire, there is no appeal to fire or to the maker of fire, and I have only myself to blame.
Henry David ThoreauYou must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.
Henry David ThoreauStichwörter: carpe-diem live-in-the-moment
Wildness is the preservation of the World.
Henry David ThoreauStichwörter: nature conservation wilderness
I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a
bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely
than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south
wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new
house.
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
Henry David ThoreauThe light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us.
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