Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil DisobedienceThoreau, Henry David
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A reason to turn the page
What use is a shepherd whose flocks graze higher than his thoughts?
Discovery 2 of 15“There was a shepherd that did live, And held his thoughts as high As were the mounts whereon his flocks Did hourly feed him by.”
What should we think of the shepherd’s life if his flocks always wandered to higher pastures than his thoughts?