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Against Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it.
- When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my labor which yielded…
- Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against…
- The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs.
- If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say to you ...…
- Routine is a ground to stand on, a wall to retreat to; we cannot draw on our boots without bracing ourselves against it.
- What wisdom, what warning can prevail against gladness? There is no law so strong that a little gladness may not transgress.
- Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having…
- All the morning we had heardthe sea roar on the eastern shore, which was several miles distant.... It was a very inspiriting sound to walk…
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