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Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction,a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the Muse.   Thoreau, Henry David

Source: HENRY DAVID THOREAU, Walden, chapter 18, p. 436 . Originally published in 1854. · This quote is about uncategorised · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.


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Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 - 1862) was an American essayist, poet, and naturalist. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism.

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