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I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.29, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Sweep away the clutter of things that complicate our lives.

Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.26, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

When you knock, ask to see God — none of the servants.

Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.131, Jazzybee Verlag

We live but a fraction of our lives.

Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.44, Courier Corporation

You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.

Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.129, Courier Corporation

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

We do not live by justice, but by grace.

Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “A Yankee in Canada: With Anti-slavery and Reform Papers”, p.245

The devil finds work for idle hands.

Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden: An Annotated Edition”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

Henry David Thoreau, Carl Hovde (1980). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.170, Princeton University Press

It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about.

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1140, Delphi Classics

Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2018, Delphi Classics

Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds.

Michael Benjamin Berger, Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Thoreau's Late Career and The Dispersion of Seeds: The Saunterer's Synoptic Vision”, p.126, Camden House

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.129, Simon and Schuster