The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely appli...
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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
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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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A common and natural result of an undue respect of law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, ...
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Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts, -a mere sha...
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Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.
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Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress...
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They who suspect a Mephistophiles, or sneering, satirical devil, under all, have not learned the secret of true humor, which sympathizes with gods the...
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If a man does not keep pace with hiscompanions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Lethim step to the music which he hears, however m...
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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But, wherever a man goes, men will pursue and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-...
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Yet, for my part, I was never usually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it were necessary. I am glad to have drunk w...
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
