 | John Millard (elocution master in the City of Lond. sch.) - Elocution - 1882 - 274 pages
...Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries (the number thus in want are comparatively few) ; but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.' ' There is your crown ; And He that wears the crown immortally Long guard it yours ! If I affect it... | |
 | James Hay - Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 - 1884 - 400 pages
...201. Of riches, as of everything else, the hope is Riches - . more than the enjoyment. No sooner do we sit down to enjoy our acquisitions, than we find them insufficient to fill up the vacuities of life. — Idler, No. 73. Riches, authority, and praise, lose all their ^Riches . , " ., j • u influence... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 pages
...change of manners which ! opulence has produced. Nature makes ! us poor only when we want necessaries, j ruck with Death, instead of lying gasping out his last there, Superfluity and difficulty begin together. To dress food for the stomach is easy; the art is, to irritate... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 316 pages
...poisons which may for a time please the palate, but soon betray their malignity by languor and by pa1n. It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard ; to obtain from the bounty of nature what the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 286 pages
...poisons which may for a time please the palate, but soon betray their malignity by languor and by pain. It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard ; to obtain from the bounty of nature what the... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...our fears, — anxieties for ills that never happen, — a greater part of the other half. — Bovee. Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries,...the name of poverty to the want of superfluities. — Johnson. Ho man is poor who does not think himself §o. But if in a full fortune with impatience... | |
 | Motilal M. Munshi - 1904 - 636 pages
...according to what he is, according to what he has. Not he that has little but he that desires mucli poor. Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries,...the name of poverty to the want of superfluities. Burke observed that a labourer who earned a sufficiency to maitain him as a labourer, and to maintain... | |
 | Motilal M. Munshi - 1904 - 502 pages
...Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries ( the number thus in want are comparatively few ) : but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities. Our natural and real wants are confined to narrow bounds, while those, which fancy and custom create,... | |
 | Alexander William Potts - Latin language - 1905 - 144 pages
...felicity, ardour after them secures us from weariness3 of ourselves : but no sooner do we sit down3 to enjoy our acquisitions than we find them insufficient...necessaries ; but custom gives the name of poverty to the want4 of superfluities. It is the great privilege of poverty5 to be happy unenvied, to be healthy without... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 772 pages
...attainment of felicity, ardor after them aeenree ns from weariness of ourselves ; but no sooner do we sit down to enjoy our acquisitions than we find them insufficient to fill up the vacuities of life. — Johnson. Th« rich are the real outcasts of society. juJ special missions should be organized sor... | |
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... secures us from weariness of ourselves, but no sooner do we sit down to enjoy our acquisitions than we find them insufficient to fill up the vacuities of life. 
