 | 1920 - 618 lapas
...fortunate in securing sketches on this subject by an author as well versed in th's matter as Mr. Clark.) "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." — Thoreau. ANY writers have devoted much space to the matter of taking full advantage of the nearby,... | |
 | Addison Peale Russell - 1883 - 378 lapas
...causes aiding to the result) in the condition Ireland has been for centuries back. A man is said to be rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. You remember the remark of the old philosopher, when passing through the crowded bazaar where every... | |
 | 1887 - 732 lapas
...process — by limiting one's desires to those things which are really necessary; in Thoreau's own words, "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." Every one may add to his own riches, and may lessen his own labor, and that of others, in the treadmill... | |
 | Henry S. Salt - 1888 - 264 lapas
...— by limiting one's desires to those things which are really necessary ; in Thoreiu's own words, " A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." It is habit only which makes us regard as necessary a great part of the equipment of civilized life,... | |
 | Michigan. State Board of Agriculture - 1889 - 648 lapas
...who was in an eminent degree the apostle of plain living and high thinking, Henry David Thoreau, " A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." Thoreau demonstrated by actual experiment that by working about six weeks in the year he could meet... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1890 - 158 lapas
...tried to dispense with them, to be an essential part of modern civilization. It was his opinion that "a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone " ; and his general attitude on this point may be gathered from that typical reply of his, when he... | |
 | Henry Stephens Salt - 1890 - 336 lapas
...claims of business ; and that the surest way of becoming rich is to need little — in his own words, " a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." " I have tried trade," he wrote in Walden, " but I found that it would take ten years to get under... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 536 lapas
...each blasted tree could be seen to the best advantage ; and then I let it lie, fallow perchance, for a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. My imagination carried me so far that I even had the refusal of several farms, — the refusal was... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 550 lapas
...each blasted tree could be seen to the best advantage ; and then I let it lie, fallow perchance, for a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. My imagination carried me so far that I even had the refusal of several farms, — the refusal was... | |
 | 1893 - 628 lapas
...more expeditious method, by limiting one's desires to really necessary things. "A man," says Thoreau, "is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." He did not merely talk of Arcadian simplicity ; he carried his theories into practical effect. When... | |
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I let it lie, fallow perchance, for a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. 
