January 27.
Trench says a wild man is a willed man.
Well, then, a man of will who does what he wills or wishes, a man of hope and of the future tense, for not only the obstinate is willed, but far more the constant and persevering.
The obstinate man, properly speaking, is one who will not.
The perseverance of the saints is positive willedness, not a mere passive willingness.
The fates are wild, for they will; and the Almighty is wild above all, as fate is.
What are our fields but felds or felled woods. They bear a more recent name than the woods, suggesting that previously the earth was covered with woods. Always in the new country a field is a clearing.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, January 27, 1853
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