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Henry David Thoreau

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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 I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail. Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsake his generous companions without apology. 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 Art may varnish and gild, but it can do no more. Quote Right
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Quote Left We read that the traveller asked the boy if the swamp before him had a hard bottom. The boy replied that it had. But presently the traveller's... Quote Right
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Quote Left Always you have to contend with the stupidity of men. Quote Right
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