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“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”

Henry David Thoreau book Walden ou la vie dans les bois

Source: Walden

“The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.”

Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”

Henry David Thoreau

Variant: The only remedy for love is to love more.

“This world is but canvas to our imaginations.”

Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Variant: The world is but a canvas to the imagination. <br class="br">Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Wednesday

“That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

Henry David Thoreau

March 11, 1856
Journals (1838-1859)

“Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.”

Henry David Thoreau

“The only sin in the world is ignorance.”

Henry David Thoreau

“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in”

Henry David Thoreau

“I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.”

Henry David Thoreau

“We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.”

Henry David Thoreau

“Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures.”

Henry David Thoreau

“But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.”

Henry David Thoreau

“I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.”

Henry David Thoreau

“I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.”

Henry David Thoreau

“He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.”

Henry David Thoreau

“The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.”

Henry David Thoreau

Source: Walden and Other Writings

“It takes two to speak the truth, — one to speak, and another to hear.”

Henry David Thoreau

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Wednesday

“Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

Henry David Thoreau

“In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood”

Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

“The heart is forever inexperienced.”

Henry David Thoreau