"Let us consider the way in which we spend our lives."
If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. As if a town had no interest in its forests but to cut them down! Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now
Life without Principle by Henry David Thoreau
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Ah yes, Thoreau...what an extraordinary man!
He knew that if a person wishes to paint you with a certain brush, they will do so no matter WHAT you do. It is a shame for they are the ones who suffer from lack of color and imagination unlike this painting you have created.
We have talked about this before. We are absolutely in complete command of our horizons....we are the navigators. And HDT wrote amazingly on this. In his writing the world raced along a certain path. This fact did not force his footprints upon that path.
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