Erastus Wiman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much.
-- Erastus Wiman

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By the end of the Twentieth Century, taxation will be reduced to a minimum, the entire world will be open to trade, and there will be no need of a standing army.
-- Erastus Wiman

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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
Wars--and what is war except crime on a mass scale?--destroy rather than produce. The vandal that destroys a window causes not only the owner to bear the costs of replacing it, but costs those whom he planned on using that money to buy from. The same goes for wars. The warlords--of war and peace--destroyed so much, not only what existed, but all those new things that could have existed, if only individuals were left in peace.
In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might
The fact that beauty is at one and the same time without cost and above price, robs it of the curse of possessiveness.
Terrestrial scenery is much, but it is not all. Men go in search of it; but the celestial scenery journeys to them; it goes its way round the world. It has no nation, it costs no wearinesss, it knows no bonds.
Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.
The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery. The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure â€“ attractively packaged but inferior in content.
Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.

Erastus Wiman famous quotes

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