Concordance for Walden by Thoreau, Henry David

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The word 'TRUTH' in context

  on the putty.
 Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up
 in the night and think of your work with satisfaction- a work at which
 you would not be ashamed to invoke the Muse. So will help you God, and
 so only. Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine
 of the universe, you carrying on the work.
   Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a
 table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious
 attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry
 from the inhospitable board. The hospitality was as cold as the
 ices. I thought that there was no need of ice to freeze them. They
 talked to me of the age of the wine and the fame of the vintage; but I
 thought of an older, a newer, and purer wine, of a more glorious
 vintage, which they had not got, and could not buy. The style, the
 house and grounds and "entertainment" pass for nothing with me. I
 called on the king, but he