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Only lovers know the value and magnanimity of truth.

Only lovers know the value and magnanimity of truth.

Henry David Thoreau

Truth, Lovers, Knows

Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Journeys, Adventures & Life in Harmony with Nature – 6 Book Collection (Illustrated): Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada & Canoeing in the Wilderness - North American Highlands Series”, p.200, e-artnow

There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite.

Henry David Thoreau

Truth, Health, Opposites

Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.256, Princeton University Press

This fond reiteration of the oldest expressions of truth by the latest posterity, content with slightly and religiously retouchingthe old material, is the most impressive proof of a common humanity.

Henry David Thoreau

Truth, Expression, Common Humanity

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.59, Delphi Classics

Stuff a cold and starve a cold are but two ways. They are the two practices, both always in full blast. Yet you must take the advice of the one school as if there was no other.

Henry David Thoreau

Truth, Health, School

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.197, Delphi Classics

Your scheme must be the framework of the universe; all other schemes will soon be ruins.

Henry David Thoreau

Truth, Ideas, Ruins

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.66, Delphi Classics

When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed, and left only vermin in its desolate streets. It is the imagination of poets which puts those brave speeches into the mouths of their heroes.

Henry David Thoreau

Truth, Hero, Imagination

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.282, Delphi Classics

There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.

Henry David Thoreau

Respect, Truth, Lying

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

That excitement about Kossuth, consider how characteristic, but superficial, it was!--only another kind of politics or dancing. Men were making speeches to him all over the country, but each expressed only the thought, or the want of thought, of the multitude. No man stood on truth. They were merely banded together, as usual one leaning on another, and all together on nothing.

Henry David Thoreau

Education, Country, Truth

Henry David Thoreau (2007). “My Thoughts Are Murder to the State: Thoreau's Essays on Political Philosophy”, p.177, David M Gross

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth. It is astonishing how few facts of importance are added in a century to the natural history of any animal. The natural history of man himself is still being gradually written.

Henry David Thoreau

Truth, Flower, Animal

Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Natural History Essays”, p.28, Gibbs Smith

All expression of truth does at length take this deep ethical form.

Henry David Thoreau

Truth, Expression, Doe

Henry David Thoreau (2007). “My Thoughts Are Murder to the State: Thoreau's Essays on Political Philosophy”, p.133, David M Gross

Whoever can discern truth has received his commission from a higher source than the chiefest justice in the world who can discernonly law. He finds himself constituted judge of the judge. Strange that it should be necessary to state such simple truths!

Henry David Thoreau

Truth, Simple, Law

Henry David Thoreau (2007). “My Thoughts Are Murder to the State: Thoreau's Essays on Political Philosophy”, p.28, David M Gross

You have but little more to do than throw up your cap for entertainment these American days.... Farmers' sons will stare by the hour to see a juggler draw ribbons from his throat, though he tells them it is all deception. Surely, men love darkness rather than light.

Henry David Thoreau

Truth, Son, Men

Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Natural History Essays”, p.92, Gibbs Smith

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