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Walden ou A Vida nos Bosques é uma autobiografia do escritor transcendentalista Henry David Thoreau. A obra é considerada, simultaneamente, como uma declaração de independência pessoal, uma experiência social, uma viagem de descoberta espiritual e um manual para a autossuficiência.
Henry David Thoreau livro Walden
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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“O tempo não passa de um riacho em que vou pescar.”
Henry David Thoreau livro Walden
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.”
Henry David Thoreau livro Walden
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.”
Henry David Thoreau livro Walden
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new <br class="br">Walden, Volume 1 - Página 43 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=-EoLAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA43, Henry David Thoreau - Houghton, Mifflin, 1854 <br class="br">Walden
“Em vez de amor, de dinheiro, de fama, me dê a verdade”
Henry David Thoreau livro Walden
"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.
Henry David Thoreau livro Walden
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. <br class="br">Walden, Volume 1 - Página xli http://books.google.com.br/books?id=-EoLAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR41, Henry David Thoreau - Houghton, Mifflin, 1854 <br class="br">Walden
Henry David Thoreau livro Walden
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 livro 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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Henry David Thoreau livro Walden
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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“A bondade é o único investimento que sempre compensa.”
Henry David Thoreau livro Walden
Goodness is the only investment that never fails
Walden, Chapter XI
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“Sob um governo que prende injustamente, o lugar de um homem justo é também na cadeia”
Henry David Thoreau livro Walden
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison <br class="br">Henry Thoreau; "Walden" - Página 592 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=xrksNAzWatEC&pg=PA592; de Henry David Thoreau, Will H. Dircks, Richard Whiteing - Publicado por Plain Label Books, 1906 ISBN 1603037470, 9781603037471 - 619 páginas <br class="br">Walden
“Nos dias de hoje existem professores de filosofia, mas não filósofos.”
Henry David Thoreau livro Walden
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Fonte: "Walden, ou, A vidas nos bosques"
“O que mais encoraja é a capacidade humana de elevar sua vida por meio do esforço consciente.”
Henry David Thoreau livro Walden
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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