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Henry David Thoreau.
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) was an American essayist, poet and philosopher.
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- Concord, Massachusetts
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- 1817 – 1862
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