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Remember that the smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largest fruit of happiness.

Remember that the smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largest fruit of happiness.

Henry David Thoreau
Happiness, Depression, Faith
"Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau".

We communicate like the burrows of foxes, in silence and darkness, under ground. We are undermined by faith and love.

Henry David Thoreau
Faith, Communication, Silence
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1644, Delphi Classics

That we have but little faith is not sad, but that we have little faithfulness. By faithfulness faith is earned.

Henry David Thoreau
Faith, Loyalty, Littles
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.133, Jazzybee Verlag

We are older by faith than by experience.

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

Faith, indeed, is all the reform that is needed; it is itself a reform.

Henry David Thoreau
Faith, Reform, Needed
Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “A Yankee in Canada: With Anti-slavery and Reform Papers”, p.201

We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.

Henry David Thoreau
Faith, Infinite, Leaks
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.77, Courier Corporation

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.

Henry David Thoreau
Faith, Nature, Significant
Henry David Thoreau, Stephen Allen Fender (2008). “Walden”, p.289, Oxford University Press

The coward wants resolution, which the brave man can do without. He recognizes no faith above a creed, thinking this straw by which he is moored does him good service, because his sheet anchor does not drag.

Henry David Thoreau
Faith, Men, Thinking
Henry David Thoreau, Bradford Torrey, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1906). “Cape Cod and Miscellanies”

A man's real faith is never contained in his creed, nor is his creed an article of his faith. The last is never adopted. This it is that permits him to smile ever, and to live even as bravely as he does. And yet he clings anxiously to his creed, as to a straw, thinking that that does him good service because his sheet anchor does not drag.

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

If we cannot sing of faith and triumph, we will sing our despair. We will be that kind of bird. There are day owls, and there arenight owls, and each is beautiful and even musical while about its business.

Henry David Thoreau
Beautiful, Faith, Bird
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.177, Jazzybee Verlag

The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith from.

Henry David Thoreau
Faith, Spring, Men
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.77, Courier Corporation

A healthy man, with steady employment, as wood-chopping at fifty cents a cord, and a camp in the woods, will not be a good subjectfor Christianity. The New Testament may be a choice book to him on some, but not on all or most of his days. He will rather go a-fishing in his leisure hours. The Apostles, though they were fishers too, were of the solemn race of sea-fishers, and never trolled for pickerel on inland streams.

Henry David Thoreau
Bible, Faith, Book
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.96, Penguin

My actual life is a fact, in view of which I have no occasion to congratulate myself; but for my faith and aspiration I have respect. It is from these that I speak.

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

Alas! this is the crying sin of the age, this want of faith in the prevalence of a man. Nothing can be effected but by one man. Hewho wants help wants everything. True, this is the condition of our weakness, but it can never be the means of our recovery. We must first succeed alone, that we may enjoy our success together.

Henry David Thoreau
Success, Faith, Recovery
Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Civil Disobedience & Other Essays - Premium Collection: 26 Political, Philosophical & Historical Essays: Slavery in Massachusetts, Life Without Principle, The Landlord, Walking, Sir Walter Raleigh, Paradise (to be) Regained, Herald of Freedom, A Plea for Captain John Brown, The Highland Light, Dark Ages…”, p.312, e-artnow

Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten.

Henry David Thoreau
Faith, Inspiration, Self
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.201, Courier Corporation

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

Henry David Thoreau
Family, Faith, Morning
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.482, Simon and Schuster

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