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Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

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Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

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Nationality: American


Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant. Henry David Thoreau

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It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise a sick one to lay down his bed and run.

How godlike, how immortal, is he?

I should not talk so much about myself if there were any body else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience.

Write while the heat is in you… The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with.

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When the subject has refused allegiance and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished.

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I have scarcely heard of a truer sacrament, that is, as the dictionary defines it, "outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace," than this, and I have no doubt that they were originally inspired directly from Heaven to do thus, though they have no Biblical record of the revelation.

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A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.

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