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Friendship is evanescent in ev...

Friendship is evanescent in every man's experience, and remembered like heat lightning in past summers.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

I have seen some who did not k...

I have seen some who did not know when to turn aside their eyes in meeting yours. A truly confident and magnanimous spirit is wiser than to contend for the mastery in such encounters. Serpents alone conquer by the steadiness of their gaze. My friend looks me in the face and sees me, that is all.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

A man's social and spiritual d...

A man's social and spiritual discipline must answer to his corporeal. He must lean on a friend who has a hard breast, as he wouldlie on a hard bed. He must drink cold water for his only beverage. So he must not hear sweetened and colored words, but pure and refreshing truths. He must daily bathe in truth cold as spring water, not warmed by the sympathy of friends.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

We must love our friend so muc...

We must love our friend so much that she shall be associated with our purest and holiest thoughts alone.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

In love and friendship the ima...

In love and friendship the imagination is as much exercised as the heart; and if either is outraged the other will be estranged. It is commonly the imagination which is wounded first, rather than the heart,--it is so much the more sensitive.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

A noble person confers no such...

A noble person confers no such gift as his whole confidence: none so exalts the giver and the receiver; it produces the truest gratitude. Perhaps it is only essential to friendship that some vital trust should have been reposed by the one in the other. I feel addressed and probed even to the remotest parts of my being when one nobly shows, even in trivial things, an implicit faith in me.... A threat or a curse may be forgotten, but this mild trust translates me.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

The richest gifts we can besto...

The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

I think that Nature meant kind...

I think that Nature meant kindly when she made our brothers few. However, my voice is still for peace.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

I often accuse my finest acqua...

I often accuse my finest acquaintances of an immense frivolity; for, while there are manners and compliments we do not meet, we donot teach one another the lessons of honesty and sincerity that the brutes do, or of steadiness and solidity that the rocks do. The fault is commonly mutual; however, for we do not habitually demand any more of each other.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

We should never stand upon cer...

We should never stand upon ceremony with sincerity. We should never cheat and insult and banish one another by our meanness, if there were present the kernel of worth and friendliness. We should not meet thus in haste.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

I had but three chairs in my h...

I had but three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Of what significance the light...

Of what significance the light of day, if it is not the reflection of an inward dawn?--to what purpose is the veil of night withdrawn, if the morning reveals nothing to the soul? It is merely garish and glaring.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Knowledge is to be acquired on...

Knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Love is the profoundest of sec...

Love is the profoundest of secrets. Divulged, even to the beloved, it is no longer Love. As if it were merely I that loved you. When love ceases, then it is divulged.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

The gods cannot misunderstand,...

The gods cannot misunderstand, man cannot explain.

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What means the fact--which is ...

What means the fact--which is so common, so universal--that some soul that has lost all hope for itself can inspire in another listening soul an infinite confidence in it, even while it is expressing its despair?

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It is not in vain that man spe...

It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Letter-writing too often degen...

Letter-writing too often degenerates into a communicating of facts, and not of truths; of other men's deeds and not our thoughts.What are the convulsions of a planet, compared with the emotions of the soul? or the rising of a thousand suns, if that is not enlightened by a ray?

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Perhaps the facts most astound...

Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

I have found it a singular lux...

I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

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