the Thoreau Log.
20 March 1840. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  In society all the inspiration of my lonely hours seems to flow back on me, and then first have expression.

  Love never degrades its votaries, but lifts them up to higher walks of being. They over-look one another. All other charities are swallowed up in this; it is gift and reward both.

  We will have no vulgar Cupid for a go-between, to make us the playthings of each other, but rather cultivate an irreconcilable hatred instead of this.

(Journal, 1:129)

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