Henry David Thoreau: Frases em inglês
Frases em inglês.“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.”
Fonte: Walden and Other Writings
Henry David Thoreau livro Life Without Principle
Life Without Principle (1863)
Contexto: I wish to suggest that a 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 his life getting his living. All great enterprises are self-supporting. The poet, for instance, must sustain his body by his poetry, as a steam planing-mill feeds its boilers with the shavings it makes. You must get your living by loving.
“A gun gives you the body, not the bird.”
Quoted by Ralph Waldo Emerson in Talks with Ralph Waldo Emerson http://books.google.com/books?id=IhA6AQAAIAAJ&q=%22A+gun+he+said+gives+you+the+body+not+the+bird%22&pg=PA86#v=onepage (1890) by Charles Johnson Woodbury
“Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.”
Henry David Thoreau livro A Desobediência Civil
Fonte: Civil Disobedience (1849)
Henry David Thoreau livro Walden
Fonte: Walden
“What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.”
Variante: What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.