Penance Body

Famous quotes containing the words penance and/or body:

“I have travelled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.... The twelve labors of Hercules were trifling in comparison with those which my neighbors have undertaken; for they were only twelve, and had an end; but I could never see that these men slew or captured any monster or finished any labor.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“See an old unhappy bull,
Sick in soul and body both,
Slouching in the undergrowth
Of the forest beautiful,”
—Ralph Hodgson (c. 1871–1962)