Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? - Henry David Thoreau
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Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life?
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau (12 July 1817 – 6 May 1862) was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government (also known as Civil Disobedience), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.
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David Henry Thoreau
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Thoreau
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Henry D. Thoreau
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Henry Thoreau
What extracts from the Vedas I have read fall on me like the light of a higher and purer luminary, which describes a loftier course through purer stratum. It rIses on me like the full moon after the stars have come out, wading through some far stratum in the sky.
I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.
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