Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
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Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.John Ruskin
People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.
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Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done.
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Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
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Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
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