It would be worth the while to ask ourselves weekly -- Is our life innocent enough? Do we live inhumanely -- toward man or beast -- in thought or act? To be serene & successful we must be at one with the universe. The least conscious & needless injury inflicted on any creature -- is to its extent a suicide. What peace -- or life -- can a murderer have?
Source: Daily Observations: Thoreau on the Days of the Year (2005), edited by Steve Grant
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
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