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" Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of 'speculation'; but which ought to be called Gambling. "
Name
Rich
Desire
" Endless are the instances of men of bright parts and high spirit having been, by degrees, rendered powerless and despicable by their imaginary wants. "
Spirit
Powerless
High
" From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it. "
Opinion
Age
Early
" Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives. "
Misery
Mind
Lives
" I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach. "
Fellow
Any
Full
" It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world. "
Top
Misery
World
" It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants. "
Man
Greatness
Much
" Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent. "
Want
Talent
Perseverance
" Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted. "
Integrity
Men
Once
" Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may. "
Respect
Goodness
Men
" Never - no, not for one moment - believe that any human being, with sense in his skull, will love or respect you on account of your fine or costly clothes. "
Respect
Moment
Love
" Please your eye and plague your heart. "
Please
Eye
Heart
" Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write. "
You
Down
Sit
" The great security of all is to eat little and to drink nothing that intoxicates. He that eats till he is full is little better than a beast, and he that drinks till he is drunk is quite a beast. "
Great
Better
Beast
" The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet. "
Power
Money
Gives
" There never yet was, and never will be, a nation permanently great, consisting, for the greater part, of wretched and miserable families. "
Miserable
Nation
Never
" The taste of the times is, unhappily, to give to children something of book-learning, with a view of placing them to live, in some way or other, upon the labour of other people. "
View
Way
Children
" The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor. "
Labor
Taxation
Create
" The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people, have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty. "
Last
Budget
Empty
" To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility. "
Independent
Impossibility
Poor
" To be without sure and safe friends in the world makes life not worth having; and whom can we be so sure of as of our children? "
Friends
Life
World
" To have a dutiful family, the father's principle of rule must be love, not fear. His sway must be gentle, or he will have only an unwilling and short-lived obedience. "
Obedience
Love
Fear
" To live well, to enjoy all things that make life pleasant, is the right of every man who constantly uses his strength judiciously and lawfully. "
Right
Enjoy
Life
" Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them. "
Power
Natural
Law
" You never know what you can do till you try. "
Till
Try
You
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