“ It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil. ”
Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854). copy citation
| Author | Henry David Thoreau |
|---|---|
| Source | Walden |
| Topic | evil beginning |
| Date | 1854 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/205/205-h/205-h.htm |
Context
“The moon will not sour milk nor taint meat of mine, nor will the sun injure my furniture or fade my carpet, and if he is sometimes too warm a friend, I find it still better economy to retreat behind some curtain which nature has provided, than to add a single item to the details of housekeeping. A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare within the house, nor time to spare within or without to shake it, I declined it, preferring to wipe my feet on the sod before my door. It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
Not long since I was present at the auction of a deacon's effects, for his life had not been ineffectual:— «The evil that men do lives after them.»
As usual, a great proportion was trumpery which had begun to accumulate in his father's day.” source
Not long since I was present at the auction of a deacon's effects, for his life had not been ineffectual:— «The evil that men do lives after them.»
As usual, a great proportion was trumpery which had begun to accumulate in his father's day.” source
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