Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Self Reliance

• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Adventure, Dead Poets Society

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

• We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Self Reliance, Firsts, Remember

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.8

• In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Differences, Self Reliance

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience”, p.5, Henry David Thoreau

• I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Self Reliance, Should

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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