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TehPharmakon t1_iyart46 wrote

Was he the one that was super racist or the one who had his mom come to the pond to wash his clothes?

I always get Thoreau and Emerson confused.

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StillBurningInside t1_iyazjwc wrote

Emerson changed his views early on and became an abolitionist prior to the break out of the civil war.

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Goldenrule-er t1_iybgm6s wrote

You're not afraid of making mistakes, but I wonder if you're interested in the slightest, in learning from them.

"You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn." -Ray Bradbury

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Netscape4Ever t1_iyc3oyp wrote

Thoreau. He had dinner with his momma every week while living in solitude at Walden pond.

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