If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?


Henry David Thoreau

896

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.


Henry David Thoreau

896

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.


Henry David Thoreau

896

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.


Henry David Thoreau

896

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.


Henry David Thoreau

896

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.


Henry David Thoreau

896

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.


Henry David Thoreau

896

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.


Henry David Thoreau

896

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.


Henry David Thoreau

896

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.


Henry David Thoreau

896

What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.


Henry David Thoreau

896

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


Henry David Thoreau

896

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.


Henry David Thoreau

896

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

896

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.


Henry David Thoreau

896

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.


Henry David Thoreau

896

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.


Henry David Thoreau

896

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.


Henry David Thoreau

896

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.


Henry David Thoreau

896

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.


Henry David Thoreau

896

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