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)
Walden
“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
Walden
“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
Walden
“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
Walden
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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Walden
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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Walden
Fonte: "Leituras", extraído de "Walden"
“Nunca é muito tarde para abandornarmos nossos preconceitos.”
Variante: Nunca é tarde para abrirmos mão dos nossos preconceitos.
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. In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, simplify.
Walden, Chapter II
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