Генри Дэвид Торо: Цитаты на английском языке

Генри Дэвид Торо было американский писатель, мыслитель, натуралист, общественный деятель. Цитаты на английском языке.
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“… for my greatest skill has been to want but little.”

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Henry David Thoreau книга Уолден, или Жизнь в лесу

Источник: Walden

“Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.”

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Henry David Thoreau

“On 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.”

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Henry David Thoreau

February 28, 1840
Journals (1838-1859)

“I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.”

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Henry David Thoreau

Источник: Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

“I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it's gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.”

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Henry David Thoreau

“What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?”

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Henry David Thoreau

Источник: Thoreau Journal 9

“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.”

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Henry David Thoreau книга Уолден, или Жизнь в лесу

Источник: Walden

“In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood”

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Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Источник: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

“Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

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Henry David Thoreau

“It takes two to speak the truth, — one to speak, and another to hear.”

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Henry David Thoreau

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Wednesday

“The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.”

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Henry David Thoreau

Источник: Walden and Other Writings

“I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.”

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Henry David Thoreau