"What wisdom, what warning can prevail against..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
What wisdom, what warning can prevail against gladness? There is no law so strong that a little gladness may not transgress.
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“The poet's, commonly, is not a logger's path, but a woodman's. The logger and pioneer have preceded him, like John the Baptist; eaten the wild honey, it may be, but the locusts also; banished decaying wood and the spongy mosses which feed on it, and built hearths and humanized Nature for him.”
“Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere.”
“Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them?”
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“My joy is death- Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard, Because I wish'd this world's eternity.”
“Joy is always an integral part of loving. There is joy in every act of life, no matter how menial or repetitive. To work in love is to work in joy. To live in love is to live in joy... Why not choose joy?... Why not live in joy?”
“Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.”
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“Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.”
“The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in conformity with virtue. And he will bear changes of fortunes most nobly, and with perfect propriety in every way.”
“What is an Extraordinary Life? A life of meaning, a magnificent life, a life of joy, happiness, love, passion, success, and fulfillment. Life experienced on your terms.”