...patience. There is no cutting of the Gordian knots of life ; each must be smilingly unravelled. TT is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste...money will soon be spent, or perhaps you may feel ho joy in spending it; but the interest remains imperishable and ever new. To become a botanist, a...

...country. CHAPTER X AN AMERICAN SYMPOSIUM But money is only a means; it presupposes a man to use it. * * * It is always better policy to learn an interest than...but the interest remains imperishable and ever new — you have thrown down a barrier which concealed significance and beauty. The blind man has learned...

...for opulence of manhood. "It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny," says Stevenson in his Lay Morals, "to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire — to learn an interest than to make a thousand pounds. To become a botanist, a geologist, an antiquary,...

...life is an affair of cavalry, where rapid judgment and prompt action are alone possible and right. As a matter of fact, there is no one so upright but he...interest than to make a thousand pounds ; for the money vrill soon be spent, or perhaps you may feel no joy in spending it; but the interest remains imperishable...

...externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us. Emerson, E, I, 3. IT is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste...for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire. RL Stevenson, E, 37. SIR, the insolence of wealth will creep out. Dr. Johnson, B, III, 316. IT is not...

...freeway All those in favor of conserving gasoline, please raise your right foot. 563 Happy naturalist "It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a...collecting shells than to be born a millionaire." ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) 564 Young and old A kindly old grandmother was testing her granddaughter...

...prosaic meaningless facts while to you they give resources and richness throughout life. Stevenson said: "It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a...Although neither is to be despised, it is always better to learn an interest than to make a thousand pounds; for the money will soon be spent, or perhaps you...

...out of fulness of thinking that expression drops perfect like a ripe fruit. — HD THOREAU * Altho' neither is to be despised, it is always better policy...learn an interest than to make a thousand pounds. —LAY MORALS + Surely we should all endure a little weariness to make one face look brighter, or one...