"If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law."

Nature, Government, Injustice, Law

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"If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law."

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"Life is a flowing river. We came from earth and water. We will go back there after the magic of life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Nature, Life, River, Water, Earth

"Clear skies do not promise rain."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Nature, Clear Skies, Rain, Uncertainty, Hope

"Spring dances with joy in every flower and in every bud letting us know that changes are beautiful and an inevitable law of life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Every flower returns to sleep with the earth."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

Nature, Cycle, Life, Death

"Spring is the only season that flutters in on gentle wings and builds nests in our hearts."

Toni Sorenson, American Author

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"A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"To country people Cows are mild,And flee from any stick they throw;But I'm a timid town bred child,And all the cattle seem to know."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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Explore more quotes by Henry David Thoreau

"I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual."

Happiness

"Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something."

Power

"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."

Time

"It is not for a man to put himself in such an attitude to society, but to maintain himself in whatever attitude he find himself through obedience to the laws of his being, which will never be one of opposition to a just government, if he should chance to meet with such."

Society

"Goodness is the only investment that never fails."

Success

"If misery loves company, misery has company enough."

Attitude

"Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?"

Wisdom

"The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest."

Nature

"Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced."

Politics

"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."

Environment