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Os homens trabalham à sombra de um erro, lançando ao solo para adubo o que têm de melhor. Por uma sina ilusória, vulgarmente chamada necessidade, desgastam-se a amontoar tesouros que a traça e a ferrugem estragarão e que surgem ladrões para roubar. É uma vida de imbecis, como perceberão ao fim dela, se não antes.
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You who govern public affairs, what need have you to employ punishments? Love virtue, and the people will be virtuous. The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass—the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.
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Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask.
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The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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Dieu veillera à ce que vous ne manquiez pas de compagnie.
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there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.
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A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
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In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.
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At last, we know not what it is to live in the open air, and our lives are domestic in more senses than we think. From the hearth the field is a great distance. It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and the celestial bodies, if the poet did not speak so much from under a roof, or the saint dwell there so long. Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Self-emancipation
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Moreover, I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives;
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worst of all when you are the slave-driver of yourself.
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So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old. You need not rest your reputation on the dinners you give.
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for no dust gathers on the grass, unless where man has broken ground.
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We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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There are none happy in the world but beings who enjoy freely a vast horizon"—said Damodara,
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The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work we do; and yet how much is not done by us!
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For a long time I was reporter to a journal, of no very wide circulation, whose editor has never yet seen fit to print the bulk of my contributions, and, as is too common with writers, I got only my labor for my pains.
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I had gone down to the woods for other purposes. But, wherever a man goes, men will pursue and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.
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The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes that slumbers all the rest of the day and night. Little is to be expected of that day, if it can be called a day, to which we are not awakened by our Genius, but by the mechanical nudgings of some servitor, are not awakened by our own newly acquired force and aspirations from within.... After a partial cessation of his sensuous life, the soul of man, or its organs rather, are reinvigorated each day, and his Genius tries again what noble life it can make... The Vedas say, "All intelligences awake with the morning." All poets and heroes, like Memnon, are the children of Aurora, and emit their music at sunrise.
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Mientras que la civilización ha ido mejorando nuestro habitat, no ha hecho igual con los hombres que han de poblarlo. Ha creado palacios, pero no era tan fácil crear nobles y reyes. Y si los objetivos que persigue el hombre civilizado no tienen más valor que los del salvaje, si empeña la mayor parte de su vida en la satisfacción de necesidades no imprescindibles y de meras comodidades, ¿por qué ha de tener una morada mejor que la de aquél?
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But how do the poor minority fare? Perhaps it will be found that just in proportion as some have been placed in outward circumstances above the savage, others have been degraded below him. The luxury of one class is counterbalanced by the indigence of another. On the one side is the palace, on the other are the almshouse and "silent poor." The myriads who built the pyramids to be the tombs of the Pharaohs were fed on garlic, and it may be were not decently buried themselves. The mason who finishes the cornice of the palace returns at night perchance to a hut not so good as a wigwam. It is a mistake to suppose that, in a country where the usual evidences of civilization exist, the condition of a very large body of the inhabitants may not be as degraded as that of savages. I refer to the degraded poor, not now to the degraded rich. To know this I should not need to look farther than to the shanties which everywhere border our railroads, that last improvement in civilization; where I see in my daily walks human beings living in sties, and all winter with an open door, for the sake of light, without any visible, often imaginable, wood-pile, and the forms of both old and young are permanently contracted by the long habit of shrinking from cold and misery, and the development of all their limbs and faculties is checked.
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With thinking we may be beside ourselves in a sane sense. By a conscious effort of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences; and all things, good and bad, go by us like a torrent.
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...beware of all enterprises that require newclothes...
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Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost. One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living. Practically, the old have no very important advice to give the young, their own experience has been so partial, and their lives have been such miserable failures, for private reasons, as they must believe; and it may be that they have some faith left which belies that experience, and they are only less young than they were. I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors. They have told me nothing, and probably cannot tell me anything to the purpose. Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me; but it does not avail me that they have tried it. If I have any experience which I think valuable, I am sure to reflect that this my Mentors said nothing about.
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¡La laguna de Flint! ¡Así es de pobre nuestra toponimia! ¿Con qué derecho le dio su nombre ese granjero estúpido y vil, que sin compasión dejó desnudas sus orillas después de haber llevado hasta los mismos límites de sus aguas celestiales las lindes de su propiedad? Algún avaro, que más gustaba de la reluciente faz de un dólar, o de un centavo nuevo que reflejaran su propio rostro descarado; que hasta a los patos silvestres que allí formaban sus colonias miraba como intrusos; alguien de dedos transformados en garras retorcidas y coriáceas del inveterado hábito de asir cómo las arpías; no, ese no es su nombre para mí. No voy allá para ver u oír a quien jamás la vio ni se bañó en ella, ni la amó nunca, ni la ha protegido o hablado en su favor, ni siquiera ha dado gracias a Dios por haberla creado. Mejor es dejar que se llame por los peces que la pueblan, por las aves acuáticas o cuadrúpedos silvestres que la frecuentan, por las flores que engalanan sus orillas o por algún hombre o niño salvajes, el hilo de cuya historia se entrelace con la de ella. Que no responda a quien no tienen sobre ella más derecho que por título que le otorgara un vecino o una legislatura de mentalidad semejante. A él, que tan sólo pensó en su valor monetario, y cuya presencia acaso haya sido maldita para todas las riberas; un hombre que esquilmó las tierras que la rodeaban, y que de buena gana hubiere hecho otro tanto con sus aguas; que lamentaba únicamente que no se tratara de una pradera de heno inglés o de arándanos —pues nada había en ella que la redimiera, pensaba— y que la hubiera drenado y vendido por el barro de su lecho. Las aguas no movían su molino, y él no consideraba que fuera privilegio alguno el poder contemplarla. No me merecen respeto sus trabajos ni su granja, en la que todo tiene un precio; llevaría el paisaje, y a su Dios incluso, al mercado, si pudiere obtener algo por ellos; que acude a la lonja por su dios, que no es sino eso; en cuya alquería nada crece libremente; cuyos campos no producen cosecha, ni flores los prados, ni frutos los árboles, sino dólares; que no aprecia la belleza de lo que recolecta, lo cual no ha madurado hasta que no ha sido transformado en dinero. Dadme la pobreza que goza de la verdadera fortuna. Los granjeros son para mí respetables e interesantes en la medida en que son pobres; ¡agricultores pobres! ¡Una granja modelo!, donde la casa se eleva como un hongo en un montón de fiemo, con dependencias para los hombres, los caballos, los bueyes y los cerdos, limpias unas, llenas de mugre otras, todas en sucesión! ¡Abastecidas de hombres! ¡Una gran mancha de grasa que hiede a estiércol y a suero de manteca! ¡En magnífico estado de cultivo, abonado con corazones y cerebros humanos! ¡Cómo si uno fuera a cultivar sus patatas en el camposanto! Así es una granja modelo.       ¡No,
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When I have met an immigrant tottering under a bundle which contained his all—looking like an enormous wen which had grown out of the nape of his neck—I have pitied him, not because that was his all, but because he had all that to carry. If I have got to drag my trap, I will take care that it be a light one and do not nip me in a vital part. But perchance it would be wisest never to put one's paw into it.
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and yet he had rated it as a gain in coming to America, that here you could get tea, and coffee, and meat every day. But the only true America is that country where you are at liberty to pursue such a mode of life as may enable you to do without these, and where the state does not endeavor to compel you to sustain the slavery and war and other superfluous expenses which directly or indirectly result from the use of such things.
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Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them. Their fingers, from excessive toil, are too clumsy and tremble too much for that. Actually, the laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his labor would be depreciated in the market. He has no time to be anything but a machine.
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With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.
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We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A
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Es ist nicht wichtig, daß ein Mensch so schnell reift wie ein Apfelbaum oder eine Eiche. Soll er denn seinen Frühling zum Sommer machen?
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This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one center.
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not to your hospitality, but to your hospitalality;
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Como se se pudesse matar o tempo sem lesar a eternidade.
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It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
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A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips;—not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life
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Talk of heaven! ye disgrace earth.
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One afternoon, near the end of the first summer, when I went to the village to get a shoe from the cobbler's, I was seized and put into jail, because, as I have elsewhere related, I did not pay a tax to, or recognize the authority of, the State which buys and sells men, women, and children, like cattle, at the door of its senate-house. I
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I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to "glorify God and enjoy him forever.
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The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.
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It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before.
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He had been instructed only in that innocent and ineffectual way in which the Catholic priests teach the aborigines, by which the pupil is never educated to the degree of consciousness, but only to the degree of trust and reverence, and a child is not made a man, but kept a child. When
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mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived
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While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
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The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From
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I learned this, at least, by my experiment; 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… . In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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alert and healthy natures remember that the sun rose clear.
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and instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.
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