Henry David Thoreau - You may rely on it that you have the best of

You may rely on it that you have the best of me in my books, and that I am not worth seeing personally, the stuttering, blunderingclod-hopper that I am. Even poetry, you know, is in one sense an infinite brag and exaggeration. Not that I do not stand on all that I have written,--but what am I to the truth I feebly utter?

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Thoreau, Henry David. Letters to Various Persons. Ticknor and Fields, 1865, p. 131.

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About the Author

Henry David Thoreau

Born: July 12, 1817
Died: May 6, 1862
Nationality: American
Profession: Author

Biography

Henry David Thoreau was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.

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