It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Walden - Página 158, Henry David Thoreau - Plain Label Books, 1968, ISBN 1603037470, 9781603037471 - 294 páginas
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Henry David Thoreau: Citações em tendência
Frases em tendência de Henry David Thoreau · Leia as últimas citações e frases curtas na coleção“O tempo não passa de um riacho em que vou pescar.”
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Walden, Chapter II (1854)
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“Fazer todos os dias um bom dia, essa é a mais elevada das artes.”
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts
Walden, Chapter II
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“Toda a geração ridiculariza a moda antiga, mas segue religiosamente a nova.”
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new
Walden, Volume 1 - Página 43 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=-EoLAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA43, Henry David Thoreau - Houghton, Mifflin, 1854
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Walden ou A vida no bosque, Capitulo 11
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“Em vez de amor, de dinheiro, de fama, me dê a verdade”
"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth"
Walden - página 364, Henry David Thoreau, Bradford Torrey, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - Houghton Mifflin, 1906
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Variante: Em vez de amor, dinheiro, fé, fama, equidade... me dê a verdade.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Walden, Volume 1 - Página xli http://books.google.com.br/books?id=-EoLAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR41, Henry David Thoreau - Houghton, Mifflin, 1854
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Walden, Chapter II
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Fonte: "Leituras", extraído de "Walden"
that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Walden, Chapter XVIII (1854)
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Fonte: "Leituras", extraído de "Walden"