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Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Passion, Hypocrisy
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1727, Delphi Classics

How wholesome winter is, seen far or near; how good, above all mere sentimental, warm-blooded, short-lived, soft-hearted, moral goodness, commonly so called. Give me the goodness which has forgotten its own deeds,--which God has seen to be good, and let be.

Henry David Thoreau
Winter, Hypocrisy, Giving
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.284, Jazzybee Verlag

To speak impartially, the best men that I know are not serene, a world in themselves. For the most part, they dwell in forms, andflatter and study effect only more finely than the rest.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Hypocrisy, Independence
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.221, Graphic Arts Books

Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South Pacific preaches a truer doctrine.

Henry David Thoreau
Hypocrisy, Infidelity, Religion
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.97, Penguin

If you are a seer, whenever you meet a man you will see all that he owns, ay, and much that he pretends to disown, behind him.

Henry David Thoreau
Philosophical, Men, Hypocrisy
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

Most think that they are above being supported by the town; but it oftener happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which would be more disreputable.

Henry David Thoreau
Mean, Thinking, Hypocrisy
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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