<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408146" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Conscience</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Conscience is instinct bred in the house, <br>Feeling and Thinking propagate the sin <br>By an unnatural breeding in and in. <br>I say, Turn it out doors, <br>Into the moors. <br>I love a life whose plot is simple, <br>And does not thicken with every pimple, <br>A soul so sound no sickly conscience binds it, <br>That makes the universe no worse than 't finds it. <br>I love an earnest soul, <br>Whose mighty joy and sorrow <br>Are not drowned in a bowl, <br>And brought to life to-morrow; <br>That lives one tragedy, <br>And not seventy; <br>A conscience worth keeping; <br>Laughing not weeping; <br>A conscience wise and steady, <br>And forever ready; <br>Not changing with events, <br>Dealing in compliments; <br>A conscience exercised about <br>Large things, where one may doubt. <br>I love a soul not all of wood, <br>Predestinated to be good, <br>But true to the backbone <br>Unto itself alone, <br>And false to none; <br>Born to its own affairs, <br>Its own joys and own cares; <br>By whom the work which God begun <br>Is finished, and not undone; <br>Taken up where he left off, <br>Whether to worship or to scoff; <br>If not good, why then evil, <br>If not good god, good devil. <br>Goodness! you hypocrite, come out of that, <br>Live your life, do your work, then take your hat. <br>I have no patience towards <br>Such conscientious cowards. <br>Give me simple laboring folk, <br>Who love their work, <br>Whose virtue is song <br>To cheer God along.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+David+Thoreau">Henry David Thoreau</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408146" data-title="Conscience de Henry David Thoreau" data-description="Conscience is instinct bred in the house, Feeling and Thinking propagate the sin By an unnatural breeding in and in. I say, Turn it out doors, Into the moors. I love a life whose plot is simple, And does not thicken with every pimple, A sou..."></div> </div> </div>

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