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This points to friendship as active care, not just closeness. It reads as saying that good friends protect each other’s hopes and make room for each other’s ambitions, even when those dreams are fragile or uncertain. It lands when someone needs encouragement, and a friend responds with steadiness instead of competition or dismissal.
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About Henry David Thoreau
American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher
Henry David Thoreau was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. He is closely associated with the transcendentalist movement and is best known for Walden and for his essay "Civil Disobedience". Walden reflects on simple living in natural surroundings. "Civil Disobedience" argues that citizens may resist an unjust state. Thoreau's writing often returns to independence, conscience, and a close attention to nature.
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Books by Henry David Thoreau
Walden
On living deliberately.