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Henry David Thoreau's thinking on Passion goes deeper than surface-level advice. This curated archive brings together their essential quotes on the subject, revealing patterns and principles you can apply immediately. Each entry includes full source context, allowing you to understand not just what they said, but why it matters. Whether you're navigating challenges or pursuing mastery, these insights offer the mental models you need to think clearly about Passion.
"I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. All great enterprises are self-supporting. The poet, for instance, must sustain his body by his poetry, as a steam planing-mill feeds its boilers with the shavings it makes. You must get your living by loving. pp. 486–7"
Website: Wikiquote - Henry David Thoreau (Life Without Principle (1863))
"Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. p. 486"
Website: Wikiquote - Henry David Thoreau (Life Without Principle (1863))
"My life has been the poem I would have writ,But I could not both live and utter it. My Life Has Been a Poem I Would Have Writ"
Website: Wikiquote - Henry David Thoreau (A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849))
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