Henry David Thoreau
"The frontiers are not east or west north or south but wherever a man fronts a fact."
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"The frontiers are not east or west north or south but wherever a man fronts a fact."
"الحدود ليست شرقًا ولا غربًا، شمالًا ولا جنوبًا، بل حيثما يواجه المرء حقيقة."
Henry David Thoreau
"He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles."
"إن أفضل بحّار هو من يستطيع الإبحار بأقل انحراف عن اتجاه الريح، ويستخلص قوة دافعة من أعظم العقبات."
Henry David Thoreau
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears however measured or far away."
"إذا لم يجارِ المرء رفاق دربه، فلربما لأنه يطرب لقرع طبل مختلف. فليخطُ على وقع النغم الذي يستهويه، وإن كان خافتاً أو بعيد الصدى."
Henry David Thoreau
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
"يعيش جمهور الناس حياة يأس صامت."
Henry David Thoreau
"It is never too late to give up your prejudices"
"ليس أوان التخلي عن أحكامك المسبقة متأخراً قط"
Henry David Thoreau
"Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be."
"في عالمٍ يعجُّ بالمتصنِّعين السطحيين، نبلٌ أن تتنحَّى جانبًا وتقول: "سأكون أنا وحسب"."
Henry David Thoreau
"My enemies are worms, cool days, and most of all woodchucks."
"أعدائي الديدان، والأيام الباردة، وفوق كل شيء حيوانات المرموط."
Henry David Thoreau
"Philanthropy is. . . greatly overrated. A pain in the gut is not sympathy for the underprivileged, but the result of eating a green apple; the philanthropist gives to ease his own pain."
"العمل الخيري... مبالغ في تقديره إلى حد كبير. فالألم في الأحشاء ليس تعاطفاً مع المحرومين، بل هو نتيجة أكل تفاحة خضراء؛ والمتبرع يعطي ليسكن ألمه الخاص."
Henry David Thoreau
"All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be."
"إن كل إنسان لا يرغب في شيء يمتلكه، بل في شيء يفعله، أو بالأحرى في شيء يكونه."
Henry David Thoreau
Walden or, Life in the Woods
"What is once well done is done forever."
"ما أُحكِمَ صُنعُهُ مرةً، دامَ أبدًا."
Henry David Thoreau
"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run."
"إن ثمن الشيء هو مقدار ما سأسميه الحياة، وهو ما يتوجب مبادلته به، سواء كان ذلك على الفور أو على المدى الطويل."
Henry David Thoreau
Walden or, Life in the Woods
"Some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after."
"يصطاد بعض الرجال طوال حياتهم دون أن يدركوا أن السمك ليس هو غايتهم الحقيقية."
Henry David Thoreau
"However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace."
Henry David Thoreau
Walden or, Life in the Woods
"If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment."
Henry David Thoreau
I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau
"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."
Henry David Thoreau
"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."
Henry David Thoreau
Walden or, Life in the Woods
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined"
Henry David Thoreau
"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."
Henry David Thoreau
Walden or, Life in the Woods
"Things do not change; we change."
Henry David Thoreau
Walden or, Life in the Woods
"A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare within the house, nor time to spare within or without to shake it, I declined it, preferring to wipe my feet on the sod before my door. It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil."
Henry David Thoreau
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