Plain Living and High Thinking: A New Year HomilyWilbur B. Ketcham, 1897 - 61 sider |
Fra bogen
Resultater 1-3 af 3
Side 41
... how much for lux- uries ; how much for self , how much for others , how much for books , how much for pass- ing pleasures ; how much for the clear welfare of society and how much for the pride of life ; how PLAIN LIVING . 41.
... how much for lux- uries ; how much for self , how much for others , how much for books , how much for pass- ing pleasures ; how much for the clear welfare of society and how much for the pride of life ; how PLAIN LIVING . 41.
Side 42
... pass them over to the conscience and ask for a judg- ment upon them ; weigh , com- pare , balance and find out what you yourself are , as deter- mined by this criterion . Moreover , it is a habit that greatly tends to simplify and ...
... pass them over to the conscience and ask for a judg- ment upon them ; weigh , com- pare , balance and find out what you yourself are , as deter- mined by this criterion . Moreover , it is a habit that greatly tends to simplify and ...
Side 43
... pass unnoticed , and regard it as an unqualified evil . A poverty - stricken man may run in debt , and it is a matter chiefly for the man who trusts him . A rich man may incur debt if he sees fit , because he can meet it and need not be ...
... pass unnoticed , and regard it as an unqualified evil . A poverty - stricken man may run in debt , and it is a matter chiefly for the man who trusts him . A rich man may incur debt if he sees fit , because he can meet it and need not be ...
Andre udgaver - Se alle
Plain Living and High Thinking: A New Year Homily Theodore Thornton Munger Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2016 |
Plain Living and High Thinking: A New Year Homily (Classic Reprint) Theodore T. Munger Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2017 |
Plain Living and High Thinking: A New Year Homily (Classic Reprint) Theodore T. Munger Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2018 |
Almindelige termer og sætninger
accounts Annual income author of John bills bling borrower business world careless Channing chiefly deny dium dollar earnings to meet Excep exchange of values ferent finance Fortune's future earnings gambler gence genius give habit of keeping HIGH THINKING homily human society immortal imperative income is necessary incur debt John Halifax labor lack large income lation learned LIVING AND HIGH manhood matter means ment mind misery Money stands moral nature necessary to refine nigh obligations one's income overdue parable PLAIN LIVING poverty pride rection refined living rich right or wrong Sacrilege saloons savagery secure self-respect sense simplicity Sir Henry Taylor Sir Walter slavery small incomes social spend struggle of society test of character thrift tion true and high trust twenty pounds unpaid unregulated utmost test virtues vulgarity wealth well-meaning whole wise
Populære passager
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.