ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

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TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who said “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately..”
A
Ralph Thoreau
B
Emerson
C
Henry David Thoreau
D
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Thoreau, Henry David | “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately…"

Detailed explanation-2: -Find some of Henry David Thoreau’s most influential musings below. “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

Detailed explanation-3: -“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” “Things do not change; we change.” “All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.” “How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”

Detailed explanation-4: -For Thoreau at the start of Walden, living deliberately meant leading a life of solitude, self-reliance, and intimate connection to the natural world.

Detailed explanation-5: -"I went to the woods”   Thoreau Quote Products from The Shop at Walden Pond.

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