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Did God direct us so to get our living, digging where we never planted,—and He would, perchance, reward us with lumps of gold? - Henry David Thoreau Attribution: Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. “Life Without Principle” (1863), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 4, p. 464, Houghton Mifflin (1906).

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• Henry David Thoreau

Encyclopedia:

• Thoreau, Henry David (The Oxford Companion to American Military History)
• Thoreau, Henry David (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)
• Thoreau, Henry David (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)
• Thoreau, Henry David (West's Encyclopedia of American Law)

Salem on Literature:

• Henry David Thoreau (Critical Survey of Poetry)
• Henry David Thoreau (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
• Henry David Thoreau (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
• The Essays of Henry David Thoreau (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
• Henry David Thoreau (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
• Henry David Thoreau (Ethics (Ready Reference series))
• Henry David Thoreau (Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century)
• Henry David Thoreau (Cyclopedia of World Authors)

Primary Sources:

• John Brown and Henry David Thoreau (Terrorism Reference)

Literary Criticism:

• Thoreau, Henry David (Poetry)
• Walden; or, Life in the Woods Henry David Thoreau (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)
• A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Henry David Thoreau (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)

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• Henry David Thoreau is born