For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are view few important communications made through it. To speak critically, I never received more than one or two letters in my life...that were worth the postage.
-- Henry David Thoreau (Walden)
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
A Week on the Concord and Marrimack Rivers, “Sunday” (1849)
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It is remarkable, that notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which it is defended, there is no hospitality shown to, there is no appreciation of, the order of truth with which it deals. I know of no book that…
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« Consacrons une journée à vivre aussi délibérément que la Nature, sans dérailler à la moindre coquille de noix ou aile de moustique qui tombe sur les rails [...]. Si la locomotive siffle, laissons-la siffler jusqu'à ce qu'elle en ait la voix enrouée. Si la cloche sonne, pourquoi devrions-nous courir ? »
– Henry David Thoreau, dans : Wayne W. Dyer, Le bonheur selon Lao-Tseu, Guy Trédaniel Éditeur, 2009, p. 44
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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
A Week on the Concord and Marrimack Rivers, “Monday” (1849)
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All streams are but tributary to the ocean, which itself does not stream, and the shores are unchanged but in longer periods than man can measure. Go where we will, we discover infinite change in particulars only, not in generals.
For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are view few important communications made through it. To speak critically, I never received more than one or two letters in my life...that were worth the postage.
-- Henry David Thoreau (Walden)
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
-- Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 18 “Conclusion” (1854)
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