Plain Living and High Thinking: A New Year HomilyWilbur B. Ketcham, 1897 - 61 sider |
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Side 13
... ratio must individualism be cherished . The struggle of society is to hold them in equipoise ; when either side kicks the beam the other goes out of existence . To preserve the balance is the struggle of society . Life is PLAIN LIVING . 13.
... ratio must individualism be cherished . The struggle of society is to hold them in equipoise ; when either side kicks the beam the other goes out of existence . To preserve the balance is the struggle of society . Life is PLAIN LIVING . 13.
Side 20
... goes with them ; it may be seven or eight thou- sand or thereabout . The def- inite suggestion that such an income is necessary to refine- ment is mischievous because if true , by necessity it forces the vast majority into the hopeless ...
... goes with them ; it may be seven or eight thou- sand or thereabout . The def- inite suggestion that such an income is necessary to refine- ment is mischievous because if true , by necessity it forces the vast majority into the hopeless ...
Side 22
... go without domestics , with- out fine clothes , can live in a house with two rooms , can eat potato , purslain , beans , lyed corn , can work on the soil , can travel afoot , can talk with poor men , or sit silent well- contented in ...
... go without domestics , with- out fine clothes , can live in a house with two rooms , can eat potato , purslain , beans , lyed corn , can work on the soil , can travel afoot , can talk with poor men , or sit silent well- contented in ...
Side 23
... go amongst the very rich . Take ignorance and self- conceit , put them on the road of good - luck or shrewdness that brings up in a fortune , and you have the best method yet discovered for producing PLAIN LIVING . 23.
... go amongst the very rich . Take ignorance and self- conceit , put them on the road of good - luck or shrewdness that brings up in a fortune , and you have the best method yet discovered for producing PLAIN LIVING . 23.
Side 24
... go off in the opposite di- rection , and so make more conspicuous defects and faults that otherwise would have re- mained latent . Money reveals character far more often than it creates it . Refinement is first a matter of heredity ...
... go off in the opposite di- rection , and so make more conspicuous defects and faults that otherwise would have re- mained latent . Money reveals character far more often than it creates it . Refinement is first a matter of heredity ...
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Side 46 - His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.
Side 30 - ... an insight which should search out the life of a man in his pecuniary relations would penetrate into almost every cranny of his nature. He who knows, like St. Paul, both how to spare and how to abound, has a great knowledge : for if we take account of all the virtues with which money is mixed up, — honesty, justice, generosity, charity, frugality, forethought, self-sacrifice,— and of their correlative vices, — it is a knowledge which goes near to cover the length and breadth of humanity...
Side 28 - I CANNOT call riches better than the baggage of virtue ; the Roman word is better, " impedimenta ;" for as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue ; it cannot be spared nor left behind, but it hindereth the march ; yea, and the care of it sometimes loseth or diaturbeth the victory; of great riches there is no real use,, except it be in the distribution ; the rest is but conceit ; so saith Solomon, " Where much is, there are many to consume it; and what hath the owner but the sight of it...
Side 46 - Och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling! To catch dame Fortune's golden smile, Assiduous wait upon her; And gather gear by ev'ry wile That's justified by honour; Not for to hide it in a hedge, Nor for a train attendant; But for the glorious privilege Of being independent. The fear o...
Side 54 - Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
Side 29 - To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury; and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable; and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasion, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common.
Side 31 - But this is excellently expressed, that it is in imagination, and not always in fact. For certainly great riches have sold more men than they have bought out. Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.
Side 17 - ... subject of money. Unsentimental, unheroic, some will say unchristian, as it may sound, our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test of character, as well as the root of happiness or misery, throughout our whole lives. And this secret lies not so much with men as with us women. Instead of striving to make ourselves their rivals, would it not be wiser to educate ourselves into being their helpmates, not merely as wives, but as daughters, sisters, every relation in which a capable woman can...
Side 47 - But, och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling. To catch dame Fortune's golden smile, Assiduous wait upon her ; And gather gear by every wile That's justified by honour ; . Not for to hide it in a hedge, Not for a train- attendant ; But for the glorious privilege Of being independent.
Side 26 - Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.