Relaxation Rewind! Biographical Sketch of Henry David Thoreau, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thoreau's Virtues Run Into Extremes
Thoreau was sincerity itself, and might fortify the convictions of prophets in the ethical laws by his holy living. He thought that without religion or devotion of some kind, nothing great was ever accomplished. To him there was no such thing as size. The habit of a realist to find things the reverse of their appearance inclined him to put every statement in a paradox.
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