In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.
Henry David ThoreauStichwörter: work capitalism labor
Каква е ползата от къща,
ако нямаш сносна планета,
на която да я поставиш...
Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys.
Henry David ThoreauOn the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.
Henry David ThoreauStichwörter: death life-and-death death-of-a-loved-one comforting-thought death-of-a-friend
Πόσο μάταιο είναι να κάθεσαι για να γράψεις, όταν δεν έχεις σηκωθεί για να ζήσεις!
Henry David ThoreauMen have become the tools of their tools. Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Henry David ThoreauStichwörter: inspirational-life
Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.
Henry David ThoreauCuán vano es sentarse a escribir cuando aún no te has parado para vivir.
Henry David ThoreauI did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.
Henry David ThoreauStichwörter: wisdom life gold suffering wit
We are accustomed to say in New England that few and fewer pigeons visit us every year. Our forests furnish no mast for them. So, it would seem, few and fewer thoughts visit each growing man from year to year, for the grove in our minds is laid waste, — sold to feed unnecessary fires of ambition, or sent to mill, and there is scarcely a twig left for them to perch on. They no longer build nor breed with us. In some more genial season, perchance, a faint shadow flits across the landscape of the mind, cast by the wings of some thought in its vernal or autumnal migration, but, looking up, we are unable to detect the substance of the thought itself. Our winged thoughts are turned to poultry. They no longer soar….
Henry David ThoreauStichwörter: thinking reflection thoughts pensiveness
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