secure an independent income and then practice virtue?

Image 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

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Dread of Censure = Death of Genius

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Reading is a means of thinking with another person’s mind: it forces you to stretch your own. – Charles scribner, Jr.

Absence of occupation is not rest. A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. – William Cowper

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. - Frank Capra

The best defensive strategy is the courage to attack yourself. – Al Ries and Jack TroutTh

Do not forget little kindnesses and do not remember small faults. – Chinese proverbs

The dread of censure is the death of genius. – William G. Simms

The easiest person to decieve is one’s self. – Edward Bulwer-Lytten

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