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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Inspirational, Money
Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.125, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Inspiring, Peace
Henry David Thoreau, Joseph O. Valentine, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Land: Nature's Canvas”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Inspirational, Loneliness
1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Solitude'.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Life, Break Up
Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.12, Yale University Press

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Inspirational, Life
Walden ch. 18 (1854)

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Life, Dream
Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.170, Yale University Press

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Life, Trust
Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.9, Courier Corporation

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Lonely, Men
Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.88, Courier Corporation

Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Romantic, Soulmate
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.42, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Respect, Appreciate
Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.27, Heron Dance Press

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

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

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

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

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Graduation, Dream
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.238, Courier Corporation

There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Heaven, Earth

The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.

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

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Inspirational, Monday
Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.106, Cambridge University Press

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Friendship, Best Friend

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Hate, Literature
Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.9, Heron Dance Press

Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Goodbye, Nature
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1631, Delphi Classics

The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Men, Earth
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.512, Delphi Classics

What is the singing of birds, or any natural sound, compared with the voice of one we love.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Voice, Bird
Henry David Thoreau (1993). “A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851”, p.50, Penguin

It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Inspiration, Past
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1143, Delphi Classics

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Sad, Disease
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.56, Courier Corporation

Between whom there is hearty truth there is love.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Inspirational, Philosophy
Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.10, Heron Dance Press

A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Names, Individuality
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.195, Xist Publishing

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