 Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity ! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand ; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.  Freedom from Tyranny of the Urgent - Page 57by Charles E. Hummel - 2009Limited preview - About this book
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1856 - 330 pages
...child of God, than to have a little more even of his best gifts. Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity ! I say, let your...million, count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail. In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds, and storms,... | |
 | University magazine - 1877 - 810 pages
...to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity ! I say, let your...three, and not a hundred or a thousand ; instead of amillion count half a-dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail. In the midst of this chopping... | |
 | 1877 - 832 pages
...extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity ! I gay, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand ; instead of amillion count half a-dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail. In the midst of this chopping... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1882 - 278 pages
...sim.icJM^^B fr pliciJil' - I say, let your affairs be as nl three, and not a hundred or a thousand ;^Kstead of a million count half a dozen, and >>keep your accounts on your thumb nail. In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms... | |
 | Julia B. Hoitt - 1890 - 426 pages
...yourself into a character : you must hammer and forge yourself one. Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity ! I say, let your...million, count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. JOHN B. GOUGH (1817-1886) Intemperance weaves the winding-sheet of souls. A man's... | |
 | Henry Stephens Salt - 1890 - 336 pages
...to count more than his ten f1ngers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity ! I say, let your...hundred or a thousand ; instead of a million count half-a-dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nails. . . . The nation itself, with all its so-called... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1890 - 174 pages
...living is so dear ; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. WAUW.PJ*. as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand ;...million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail WALDEN, p. 99"Plain living The nation itself is just such an thinking." unwieldy and... | |
 | Henry Stephens Salt - 1890 - 340 pages
...to count more than his ten r1ngers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity ! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, 237 and not a hundred or a thousand ; instead of a million count half-a-dozen, and keep your accounts... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 550 pages
...to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity ! I say, let your...million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail. In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 536 pages
...to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. ^Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity ! I say, let your...million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail. In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms... | |
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