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We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship.

We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship.

Henry David Thoreau, Bradford Torrey, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1906). “Journal, ed. by Bradford Torrey, 1837-1846, 1850-Nov. 3, 1861”

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.10, Yale University Press

Do not engage to find things as you think they are.

Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.148, Jazzybee Verlag

To be awake is to be alive.

Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.142

What can be expressed in words can be expressed in life.

Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.357, Penguin

Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.

Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Miscellanies (Annotated Edition)”, p.10, Jazzybee Verlag

I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.12, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

All men are children, and of one family.

Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.67

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2131, Delphi Classics

There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.71, Delphi Classics

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.8, Penguin

Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?

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

There is absolutely no common sense, it is common non-sense.

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.

Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.18, Yale University Press

You must speak loud to those who are hard of hearing.

Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.204, Princeton University Press