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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Henry David Thoreau: Vida
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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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Variante: Fui à floresta viver de livre vontade, para sugar o tutano da vida. Aniquilar tudo o que não era vida. Para, quando morrer, não descobrir que não vivi.
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
Walden
A Vida Sem Princípios
Fonte: "A Vida Sem Princípios"
“A maioria dos homens vivem vidas de silencioso desespero”
Desperation, mass of men lead lives of quiet
Walden with Thoreau's Essay "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" - Página 10 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=pbElaJ5zROUC&pg=PA10, Henry David Thoreau - Arc Manor LLC, 2007, ISBN 1604500190, 9781604500196 - 220 páginas
“O que mais encoraja é a capacidade humana de elevar sua vida por meio do esforço consciente.”
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.
Walden, Chapter II
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