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The Henry D. Thoreau Quotation Page: Truth
  • Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. [Walden]
  • It takes two to speak the truth, — one to speak, and another to hear. [A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers]
  • Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe. [Walden]
  • If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth. [A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers]
  • No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well as the truth. This alone wears well. [Walden]

    A Note on the Text: Unless otherwise noted, quotations are from The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906)
     

 

Shad-bush (Photographer: Herbert Gleason, from The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, 1906)

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. — "Life Without Principle"

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