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Thoreau's Life & Writings
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Henry D. Thoreau Quotation Pages

On Heroes and the Heroic

• The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men. ["Walking"]

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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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