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

Henry David Thoreau · Love

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Henry David Thoreau

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Love

Henry David Thoreau

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Learning

Henry David Thoreau

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

Architecture

Henry David Thoreau

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

Imagination