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The Thoreau Institute
at Walden Woods Library
Thoreau's
Life & Writings
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Henry D. Thoreau Quotation Pages
On the Self and Self-Reliance
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What a man thinks
of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his
fate. [Walden "Economy"]
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If I am not I, who will be? [Journal
9 August 1841]
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In most books, the I, of
first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in
respect to egotism, is the main difference. [Walden]
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I should not talk so much about
myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. [Walden]
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We commonly do not remember that
it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. [Walden]
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Note on the Text:
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Source:
Unless otherwise noted, quotations are from The Writings of Henry
David Thoreau (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906)
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