Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances: Or, What He Said, Did, Or InventedBlanchard and Lea, 1853 - 291 Seiten |
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Seite 39 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Seite 224 - Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centres in the mind. Why have I strayed from pleasure and repose, To seek a good each government bestows...
Seite 218 - Saviour's birth, as to double itself every fourteen years — or, what is nearly the same, put out at five per cent, compound interest at our Saviour's birth — would by this time have increased to more money than could be contained in 150 millions of globes, each equal to the earth in magnitude, and all solid gold.
Seite 97 - ... saddle, cuts into the very bone. Neither labour nor idleness has a road that leads to happiness — one has no room for the heart, and the other corrupts it. Hard work is the best of the two, for that has, at all events, sound sleep — the other has restless pillows and unrefreshing sleep ; one is a misfortune, the other is a curse ; — and money ain't happiness, that's as clear as mud.
Seite 263 - ... don't differ no great odds. We ought to draw closer than we do. We are big enough, equal enough, and strong enough not to be jealous of each other. United, we are more nor a match for all the other nations put together, and can defy their fleets, armies, and millions. Single, we could n't stand against all ; and if one was to fall, where would the other be ? Mournin' over the grave that covers a relative whose place can never be filled.
Seite 176 - There's a vacant smile, a cold smile, a satiric smile, a smile of hate, an affected smile, a smile of approbation, a friendly smile, but, above all, a smile of love. A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother's love.
Seite 109 - His dress is ontidy, and he smokes a short black pipe (he didn't even smoke a cigar before he was married), and the ashes get on his waistcoat ; but who cares ? it's only his wife to see it — and he kinder guesses he sees wrinkles...
Seite 97 - I ask again, What is happiness? It ain't bein' idle, that's a fact — no idle man or woman ever was happy, since the world began. Eve was idle, and that's the way she got tempted, poor critter ; employment gives both appetite anil digestion.
Seite 97 - It ain't bein' idle, that's a fact — no idle man or woman ever was happy, since the world began. Eve was idle, and that's the way she got tempted, poor critter ; employment gives both appetite and digestion. Duty makes pleasure doubly sweet by contrast. "When the harness is off, if the work ain't too hard, a critter likes to kick up his heels. When pleasure is the business of life, it ceases to be pleasure; and, when it's all labour and no play, work, like an unstufl'ed saddle, cuts into the very...
Seite 108 - ... ways, and they bill and coo, and get married because they hope. Well, what do they hope ? Oh, they hope they will love all the days of their lives, and they hope their lives will be ever so long just to love each other; its such a sweet thing to love.