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The only wealth is life.

The only wealth is life.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Money, Wealth

Tradition is a more interrupted and feebler memory.

Henry David Thoreau
Memories, Tradition, Interrupted
Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.309

One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.

Henry David Thoreau
Lying, Men, Reputation
Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.145, Princeton University Press

Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours.

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True Friend, Heart, May
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.203, Delphi Classics

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

Henry David Thoreau
Kings, Men, Civilization
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.21, Cosimo, Inc.

I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future.

Henry David Thoreau
Past, Anticipation, Remember
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “The Illustrated Walden: Thoreau Bicentennial Edition”, p.33, Penguin

If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention

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Science, Improvement, Invention

I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.

Henry David Thoreau
Regret, Add, May
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1902, Delphi Classics

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

Henry David Thoreau
Suspicion, Findings, Paid
Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.26, New York Review of Books

It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods.

Henry David Thoreau
Secret, Wild And Free, Woods
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.147, Cosimo, Inc.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

Henry David Thoreau
Truth, Giving, Lasts
Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

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Book, Reading, Learning
Henry David Thoreau (2004). “On Reading: From "Walden"”, p.6, Princeton University Press

Friends are made for caring and sharing. Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Henry David Thoreau
Caring, Harmony, Made

Whether we live by the seaside, or by the lakes and rivers, or on the prarie, it concerns us to attend to the nature of fishes, since they are not phenomena confined to certain localities only, but forms and phases of the life in nature universally dispersed. The countless shoals which annually coast the shores of Europe and America are not so interesting to the student of nature as the more fertile law itselffrom which it results that they may be found in water in so many places, in greater or lesser numbers.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Lakes, Europe And America
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.18, Xist Publishing

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Henry David Thoreau
Friendship, Best Friend, Ignorance
Henry David Thoreau (2001). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.182, Courier Corporation

To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Henry David Thoreau
Regret, Negativity
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.10, Courier Corporation

Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

Henry David Thoreau
Mind, Walden Pond, Made
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.331, Penguin

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

Henry David Thoreau
House, Literature, Property Ownership
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.26, Xist Publishing

Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

Henry David Thoreau
Poetry, Mankind, Mysticism
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.77, BookBaby

. . . I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days. . . .

Henry David Thoreau
Summer, Wealth, Rich
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.125, Cosimo, Inc.

The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea.

Henry David Thoreau
Swamps, Wilderness, Primitive
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume III (of 20)”, p.87, Trajectory Inc

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Henry David Thoreau
Positive, Attitude, Feet
Henry David Thoreau, Laura Ross (2009). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods: Bold-faced Ideas for Living a Truly Transcendent Life”, p.373, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.

Henry David Thoreau
Integrity, Character, Ethics
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.199, Delphi Classics

In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.

Henry David Thoreau
Motivational, Running, Long

What is once well done is done forever.

Henry David Thoreau
Integrity, Inspiration, Forever
Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.10, Hayes Barton Press

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