Walden (Henry David Thoreau)
A work by Henry David Thoreau, first published in 1854
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Most people lead lives of quiet desperation, and what is called resignation is confirmed desperation, Most luxuries and many comforts are not only unnecessary but positive hindrances to human elevation, The cost of a thing is the amount of life that has to be exchanged for it, now or in the long run …
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Henry David Thoreau
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- There are 6 claims from it on korrents, each quoted word for word.
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What korrents draws from it
korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.
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Most people lead lives of quiet desperation, and what is called resignation is confirmed desperation (opens korrents.com)1
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Most luxuries and many comforts are not only unnecessary but positive hindrances to human elevation (opens korrents.com)1
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The cost of a thing is the amount of life that has to be exchanged for it, now or in the long run (opens korrents.com)1
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A person is rich in proportion to the number of things they can afford to leave alone (opens korrents.com)1
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Life is worth living deliberately, facing only its essential facts, so as not to find at death that one has not lived (opens korrents.com)1
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Life is frittered away by detail, and should be kept simple (opens korrents.com)1
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- Henry David Thoreau
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