And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, - we need never read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications?
Henry David ThoreauA man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of life getting his living.
Henry David ThoreauTo 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.
Henry David ThoreauStichwörter: philosophy
Simplify, simplify.
Henry David ThoreauStichwörter: life
It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
Henry David ThoreauStichwörter: inspirational purpose industriousness
The house is still but a sort of porch at the entrance of a burrow.
Henry David ThoreauI have learned that the swiftest traveler is he that goes afoot.
Henry David ThoreauAs with our colleges, so with a hundred 'modern improvements'; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance.
Henry David ThoreauOur inventions are wont to be pretty toys which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at.
Henry David ThoreauI am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.
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