Famous Quotes by Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)

Below are famous quotes by Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) - US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862).

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

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