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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.

— Henry David Thoreau

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From Where I Lived, and What I Lived For of Walden, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience. Read the surrounding argument as well as the excerpt; its historical language and philosophical assumptions shape its meaning.

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Source: Walden, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience , Where I Lived, and What I Lived For

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From Walden, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

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