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Henry David Thoreau Famous Quotes: The Wisdom of Henry David Thoreau " Be true to your work, your word, and your friend" " Be not simply good - be good for something." " As if you could kill time without injuring eternity." " As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.  " " All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.  " " An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day." " After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.  "
 * born in 1817
 * brother John helped pay his Harvard tuition
 * brother died of lockjaw in Henry's arms
 * wanted to write book
 * when 28 in 1845 went to Walden Pond and lived there alone for 2 years
 * while there a lot of reading and writing took long walks in woods
 * while there wrote a book on one of his adventures with his older brother called __//A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers//__
 * spent 9 years writing drafts for his book __//Walden//__ that tells of his experiences on Walden Pond
 * was against slavery
 * intersested in frontier and indians
 * well known for essay //__Civil Disobediance__//
 * believed that it was good to disobey government if considered laws unjust
 * all of works add up to over 20 volumes
 * died of tuberculosis in 1862, age was 44
 * " Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."  **

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Essay on Civil Disobediance: []