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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. any truth is better than make-Believe!
By Henry David Thoreau
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.
By Henry David Thoreau
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
By Henry David Thoreau
Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
By Henry David Thoreau
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
By Henry David Thoreau
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.
By Henry David Thoreau
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
By Henry David Thoreau
One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then
By Henry David Thoreau
One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then.
By Henry David Thoreau
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
By Henry David Thoreau
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
By Henry David Thoreau
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
By Henry David Thoreau
Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.
By Henry David Thoreau
Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize the infinite extent of our relations.
By Henry David Thoreau
No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.
By Henry David Thoreau
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
By Henry David Thoreau
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
By Henry David Thoreau