Life and Literature Part 37

497

Whosoever contents himself with doing the little duties of the day, great things will, by-and-by, present themselves to him for their fulfilment also.

--_Howard Pyle._

498

We make time for duties we love.

--_Unknown._

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499

One should choose a wife with the ears, rather than with the eyes.

--_Spanish._

500

What is told in the ear, is often heard a hundred miles off.

--_Chinese._

501

'Tis easy for any man who has his foot unentangled by sufferings, both to exhort and to admonish him that is in difficulties.

--_Aeschylus._

502

If you take things easy when you ought to be doing your best work, you will probably have to keep hard at work when you might be taking it easy.

503

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

--_From the German._

504

He that eats longest lives longest.

505

Half of what we eat is sufficient to enable us to live, and the other half that we eat enables the doctors to live.

--_Dr. Osler._

506

Economy is the easy chair of old age.

507

He that will not economize may some day have to agonize.

--_Confucius._

508

Economy is no disgrace; it is better living on a little, than living beyond your means.

509

In abundance prepare for scarcity.

--_Mencius._

510

Lay up something for a rainy day; it may be needed some day.

511

Economy is something like a savings-bank, into which we drop pennies and get dollars in return.

--_H. W. Shaw._