“I am convinced that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place only in communities where some have got more than is sufficient while others have not enough.”
― Walden & Civil Disobedience
― Walden & Civil Disobedience
“It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.”
― Walden & Resistance to Civil Government
― Walden & Resistance to Civil Government
“Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”
― Walden & Civil Disobedience
― Walden & Civil Disobedience
“The universe is wider than our views of it.”
― Walden & Civil Disobedience
― Walden & Civil Disobedience
“I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and threw them out the window in disgust.”
― Walden & Civil Disobedience
― Walden & Civil Disobedience
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