Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Rebellion

• if i repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. what demon possessed me that i behaved so well?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Demon, Rebellion, Behavior

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.159, Penguin

• The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? You may say the wisest thing you can, old man, - you who have lived seventy years, not without honor of a kind, - I hear an irresistible voice which invites me away from all that.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Men, Voice

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.19

• What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Demon, Rebellion, Transcendental

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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