Showing posts with label G. K. Chesterton. Show all posts
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

secure an independent income and then practice virtue?

Beyond Virtue, Beyond ViceImage via WikipediaHe was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. – Joseph Heller




A man isn’t a man until he has to meet a payroll. – Ivan Shaffer



He found it inconvenient to be poor. – William Cowper



The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton



If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or a scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler, in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances. – Albert Einstein



Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. – English Proverb



First secure an independent income and then practice virtue. – Greek Proverb