Date: 1845
"I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds with the horrible character of slavery, than the reading of whole volumes of philosophy on the subject could do."
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Date: 1854
"The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels."
preview | full record— Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)