Henry David Thoreau quote: Is there not a sort of blood shed when the conscience is wounded? Through this wound a man's real manhood ...

Is there not a sort of blood shed when the conscience is wounded? Through this wound a man's real manhood and immortality flow out, and he bleeds to an everlasting death

~ Henry David Thoreau ~

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