--Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have
known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because
he has had the management of it.--DR. HORNE.
Employment, which Galen calls "nature's physician," is so essential to
human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of
misery.--BURTON.
Occupation alone is happiness.--DR. JOHNSON.
It is observed at sea that men are never so much disposed to grumble
and mutiny as when least employed. Hence an old captain, when there
was nothing else to do, would issue the order to "scour the anchor."
--SAMUEL SMILES.
The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the
regular discharge of some mechanical duty.--SCHILLER.
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which
finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or
broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.--EMERSON.
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other
blessedness. He has a work, a life purpose. Labor is life.--CARLYLE.
One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind--and that is
as much in our hands as theirs--is the right of having something to
do.--MISS MULOCK.
OPINION.--Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed
with greater.--H.W. SHAW.
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he
differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself
on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
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