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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

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

Henry David Thoreau
Money, Done, Idle

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Money, Wealth And Happiness

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Henry David Thoreau
Happiness, Wisdom, Money

The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it.

Henry David Thoreau
Money, Truth Is, Buried
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.582, Simon and Schuster

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

Henry David Thoreau
Spiritual, Money, Simplicity
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.66, BookBaby

The only wealth is life.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Money, Wealth

It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in your enterprise.

Henry David Thoreau
Money, Permit, Difficult
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.33, Graphic Arts Books

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

Henry David Thoreau
Money, May, Way
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.216, Graphic Arts Books

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Henry David Thoreau
Money, Men, One In A Million
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2207, Delphi Classics

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Henry David Thoreau
Money, Business, Philosophy
Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.98, David M Gross

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.

Henry David Thoreau
Money, Men, Rich
Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.11, Hayes Barton Press

If there were one who lived wholly without the use of money, the State itself would hesitate to demand it of him. But the rich man--not to make any invidious comparison--is always sold to the institution which makes him rich.... Thus his moral ground is taken from under his feet.

Henry David Thoreau
Money, Taken, Men

You may raise enough money to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business.

Henry David Thoreau
Money, Men, Tunnels
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.216, Graphic Arts Books

If you give money, spend yourself with it.

Henry David Thoreau
Money, Giving, Charity
Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.119

Men will tell you sometimes that "money's hard." That shows it was not made to eat, I say.... Some of those who sank with the steamer the other day found out that money was heavy too.

Henry David Thoreau
Money, Men, Sometimes
Henry David Thoreau, Bradford Torrey, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1906). “Familiar letters, ed. by F. J. Sanborn. Enl. ed”

It is remarkable that there are few men so well employed, so much to their minds, but that a little money or fame would commonly buy them off from their present pursuit.

Henry David Thoreau
Money, Men, Independence
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.416, Penguin

Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render.

Henry David Thoreau
Money, Community, Pay
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.416, Penguin

The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are increased.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Money, Mean
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Civil Disobedience”, p.48, Broadview Press

The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man.

Henry David Thoreau
Wise, Wisdom, Money
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.216, Graphic Arts Books

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