Quote of Henry David Thoreau ? - Wealth is the ability to fully...
Biography - Henry David Thoreau:
American essayist, poet and philosopher.
Born: 1817 - Died: 1862
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: United States
Born: 1817 - Died: 1862
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: United States
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
Translation
(French, German)
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Quotes about life:
Quotes for: wealth
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
Quotes for: experience
What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
Quotes for: ability
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
Article VI – The law is the expression of the general will. All the citizens have the right of contributing personally or through their representatives to its formation. It must be the same for all, either that it protects, or that it punishes. All the citizens, being equal in its eyes, are equally admissible to all public dignities, places and employments, according to their capacity and without distinction other than that of their virtues and of their talents.
The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future.
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