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The Thoreau Institute
at Walden Woods Library
Thoreau's
Life & Writings
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Henry D. Thoreau Quotation Pages
On Good and Goodness
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Be not simply good; be good for
something. [Thoreau to H.G.O. Blake, 27 March 1848]
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Men have a singular desire to be
good without being good for anything, because, perchance, they think
vaguely that so it will be good for them in the end. [A
Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers ]
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Goodness is the only investment
that never fails. [Walden]
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Note on the Text:
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Source:
Unless otherwise noted, quotations are from The Writings of Henry
David Thoreau (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906)
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