Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee.
- Topic: Time, Work
- Location: Bonneville Salt Flats
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave.
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Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.
Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.
Life is short. Time is fast. No replay, no rewind. Enjoy every moment as it comes.
One who is serious all day will never have a good time, while one who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.
What you are is what you have been. What you will be is what you do now.
The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.
No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come.
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
Half-finished work generally proves to be labor lost.
Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.
The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
