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1 decade ago in Quotes
It is remarkable that there is little or nothing to be remembered written on the subject of getting a living; how to make getting a living not merely honest and honorable, but altogether inviting and glorious; for if getting a living is not so, then living is not. One would think, from looking at literature, that this question had never disturbed a solitary individual's musings. Is it that men are too much disgusted with their experience to speak of it?
1 decade ago in Quotes
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.
1 decade ago in Quotes
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
1 decade ago in Quotes
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life, which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
1 decade ago in Quotes
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.