And having lived a trifler, die a man.
--COWPER.
But what, it may be asked, are the requisites for a life of
retirement? A man may be weary of the toils and torments of business,
and yet quite unfit for the tranquil retreat. Without literature,
friendship, and religion, retirement is in most cases found to be a
dead, flat level, a barren waste, and a blank. Neither the body nor
the soul can enjoy health and life in a vacuum.--RUSTICUS.
RICHES.--Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty.
--DR. JOHNSON.
Great abundance of riches cannot of any man be both gathered and kept
without sin.--ERASMUS.
Riches, honors, and pleasures are the sweets which destroy the mind's
appetite for its heavenly food; poverty, disgrace, and pain are the
bitters which restore it.--BISHOP HORNE.
A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world.--MOHAMMED.
Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.
--SHAKESPEARE.
He is rich whose income is more than his expenses; and he is poor
whose expenses exceed his income.--LA BRUYERE.
No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to
what he is, not according to what he has.--BEECHER.
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.--FRANKLIN.
He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.--PROVERBS 28:20.
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