"Sweet is the pleasure itself cannot spoil. Is not true leisure one with true toil?"

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John Sullivan Dwight

#Sweet Quotes #Toil Quotes #Leisure Quotes

“I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.”
“Sometimes when I am in a situation that I have never been in, I kind of pull back a little bit to observe things; it doesn't really last long though I have to. I've resigned to myself to the fact that I have to be me.”
“You will be safe in His arms 'cause the hands that hold the world are holding your heart.”
“The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch.”
“The rich possess ample means to realize any theory they may chuse to adopt in the education of their children, regardless of the cost; but it is not so with him whose Subsistence is derived from industry.”

Source : Joseph Lancaster (1807). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.41
“I paint a mountain - I think of its age - the strata formations or what grows on the mountain.”
“Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.”
“Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.”

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