Relaxation Rewind! Biographical Sketch of Henry David Thoreau, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Henry, a Speaker and Actor of the Truth
In 1845 he built himself a small framed house on the shores of Walden Pond, and lived there two years alone. As soon as he had exhausted the advantages of that solitude, he abandoned it. In 1847, not approving some uses to which the public expenditure was applied, he refused to pay his town tax and was put in jail. No one who knew him would tax him with affectation. He was more unlike his neighbors in his thought than in his action.
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