Henry David Thoreau citations célèbres
Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau Citations
“Le gouvernement le meilleur est celui qui gouverne le moins”
Variante: Le gouvernement le meilleur est celui qui gouverne le moins.
Walden, ou la vie dans les bois (1854)
Walden, ou la vie dans les bois (1854)
Civil Disobedience
Civil Disobedience
Civil Disobedience
Je suis simplement ce que je suis: Lettres à Harrison G.O. Blake
Henry David Thoreau: Citations en anglais
“Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. Atheism may comparatively be popular with God himself.”
September 7, 1851
Journals (1838-1859)
January 5, 1856
Journals (1838-1859)
“She with one breath attunes the spheres,
And also my poor human heart.”
Inspiration, Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900
“The vessel, though her masts be firm,
Beneath her copper bears a worm.”
Monday, Though All the Fates Should Prove Unkind, st. 2
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Monday
The Summer Rain http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=6711&poem=31808, st. 1 (1842)
“Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.”
November 11, 1854
Referring to an 1849 dairyman's strike, during which there was suspicion of milk being watered down
Journals (1838-1859)
Variante: Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
“The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.”
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Friday
It would be a poor story to be prejudiced against the Life of Christ because the book has been edited by Christians.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Sunday
“My life has been the poem I would have writ,
But I could not both live and utter it.”
My Life Has Been a Poem I Would Have Writ
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Friday
“There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented.”
Walking (June 1862)
“Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been there before us.”
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Thursday
“I am as desirous of being a good neighbor as I am of being a bad subject.”
Civil Disobedience (1849)
“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”
Misquotation of a line from Walden cited above, with the addition of a spurious ending. For this and other misattributions, see: The Henry D. Thoreau Mis-Quotation Page http://www.walden.org/thoreau/mis-quotations/
Misattributed
The Maine Woods http://thoreau.eserver.org/mewoods.html, Ktaadn, Pt. 6 (1848)
March 24, 1857
Journals (1838-1859)
“The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.”
Slavery in Massachusetts http://thoreau.eserver.org/slavery.html (1854)
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Sunday
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Sunday
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Sunday
“My life is like a stroll upon the beach,
As near the ocean's edge as I can go.”
The Fisher's Boy, Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Thursday
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Sunday