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Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love; and in proportion to our truthfulness and confidence in one another, our lives are divine and miraculous, and answer to our ideal. . . . Friends do not live in harmony

Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love; and in proportion to our truthfulness and confidence in one another, our lives are divine and miraculous, and answer to our ideal. . . . Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Truth, Answers

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.

Henry David Thoreau
Truth, Learning, Knowledge
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.57, Courier Corporation

Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.

Henry David Thoreau
Truth, History, Poetry
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1089, Delphi Classics

There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.

Henry David Thoreau
Truth, History, Secret
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.88, Xist Publishing

The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if we prefer, we may say that the laws of Nature are the purest morality.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Truth, Law
Henry David Thoreau (1862). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. By Henry D. Thoreau”, p.381

You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

Henry David Thoreau
Truth, Independent, Reality
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.361, Penguin

Exaggeration! was ever any virtue attributed to a man without exaggeration? was ever any vice, without infinite exaggeration? Do we not exaggerate ourselves to ourselves, or do we recognize ourselves for the actual men we are? Are we not all great men? Yet what are we actually, to speak of? We live by exaggeration.

Henry David Thoreau
Truth, Men, Vices
Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU - Ultimate Collection: 6 Books, 26 Essays & 60+ Poems, Including Translations. Biographies & Letters (Illustrated): Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada, Canoeing in the Wilderness, Civil Disobedience, Slavery in Massachusetts, Life Without Principle, Excursions, Poems of Nature, Familiar Letters…”, p.1380, e-artnow

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Henry David Thoreau
Truth, Years, Giving

A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.

Henry David Thoreau
Truth, Views, Common Sense
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.245, Delphi Classics

It is impossible to say all that we think, even to our truest Friend. We may bid him farewell forever sooner than complain, for our complaint is too well grounded to be uttered.

Henry David Thoreau
Friendship, Truth, Communication
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.119, Penguin

The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality.

Henry David Thoreau
Truth, Knowledge, Reality
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.132, Graphic Arts Books

In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident.

Henry David Thoreau
Truth, Fear, Needs
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.64, Cosimo, Inc.

To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient history and biography. So far from being false or fabulous in the common sense,it contains only enduring and essential truth, the I and you, the here and there, the now and then, being omitted. Either time or rare wisdom writes it.

Henry David Thoreau
Wisdom, Truth, Writing
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.42, Xist Publishing

In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin.

Henry David Thoreau
Truth, Joy, Perception
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.41, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!

Henry David Thoreau
Truth, Science, Men
Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.358, Princeton University Press

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

Henry David Thoreau
Funny, Truth, Consistency
Civil Disobedience (1849)

I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced.

Henry David Thoreau
Truth, Fear, Expression
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.190, Graphic Arts Books

You may rely on it that you have the best of me in my books, and that I am not worth seeing personally, the stuttering, blunderingclod-hopper that I am. Even poetry, you know, is in one sense an infinite brag and exaggeration. Not that I do not stand on all that I have written,--but what am I to the truth I feebly utter?

Henry David Thoreau
Truth, Book, Poetry

Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere.

Henry David Thoreau
Truth, Play, Deception
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.333, Penguin

The wildest dreams of wild men, even, are not the less true, though they may not recommend themselves to the sense which is most common among Englishmen and Americans to-day. It is not every truth that recommends itself to the common sense. Nature has a place for the wild clematis as well as for the cabbage. Some expressions of truth are reminiscent,--others merely sensible, as the phrase is,--others prophetic.

Henry David Thoreau
Dream, Truth, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.406, Penguin

Truth is always paradoxical.

Henry David Thoreau
Truth, Truth Is, Paradoxical
Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.10, New York Review of Books

Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.

Henry David Thoreau
Truth, Spring, Institutions
Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.23, Heron Dance Press

As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life.

Henry David Thoreau
Truth, Wine, Color
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.3, Courier Corporation

Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp's rifles, while he retained his faculty of speech,--a Sharp's rifle of infinitely surer and longer range.

Henry David Thoreau
Truth, Rifles, Oratory
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1206, Delphi Classics

If there is nothing new on the earth, still the traveler always has a resource in the skies. They are constantly turning a new page to view. The wind sets the types on this blue ground, and the inquiring may always read a new truth there.

Henry David Thoreau
Truth, Knowledge, Blue
Henry David Thoreau (2017). “The Most Alive is the Wildest – Thoreau’s Complete Works on Living in Harmony with the Nature: Walden, Walking, Night and Moonlight, The Highland Light, A Winter Walk, The Maine Woods, A Walk to Wachusett, The Landlord, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Autumnal Tints, Wild Apples…”, p.493, e-artnow

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