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Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.
Søren Kierkegaard Either/Or · 1843

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“Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“The eye of a master, will do more work than his hand.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to thee, look on his mouth.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don’t want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.”

Ernest Hemingway · The Sun Also Rises, 1926 · Primary source

“Love the day.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Behavior, 1860 · Primary source

“Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.”

Henry David Thoreau · Walden, 1849 · Primary source

“And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter,—we never need read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications?”

Henry David Thoreau · Walden, 1849 · Primary source

“This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore.”

Henry David Thoreau · Walden, 1849 · Primary source

“Just as eating against one’s will is injurious to health, so study without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.”

Leonardo da Vinci · The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, 1888 · Primary source

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