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Henry David Thoreau Quotes

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. - Henry David Thoreau (The Journal Quotes)

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Source:The Journal (August 19, 1851); The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., ed. 1906), Volume VIII, Chapter VII, Page 404
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  • Profession: Naturalist, Poet
  • Born: July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862
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