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Henry David Thoreau Poems | Quotes | Articles

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Henry David Thoreau poems, biography, quotes, examples of poetry, articles, essays and more. The best Henry David Thoreau resource with comprehensive poet information, a list of poems, short poems, quotations, best poems, poet's works and more.

Henry David Thoreau Biography...An American author, development critic, transcendentalist, pacifist, and philosopher.. American author poet philosopher abolitionist naturalist tax resister development critic surveyor historian and leading transcendentalist

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Quote Left Though the country seemed so new, and no house was observed by us, shut in between the banks that sunny day, we did not have to travel far to ... Quote Right
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Quote Left We make needless ado about capital punishment,—taking lives, when there is no life to take. Quote Right
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Quote Left We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough. Quote Right
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Quote Left Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Quote Right
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Quote Left As for health, consider yourself well. Quote Right
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