This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 edition. Excerpt: ...is a more honorable way. There are legitimate offices of service to the world for which the world will pay well; and, in one of these, at least, every man should have a place, and there do the work of his life, winning competence as he will, and wealth if he may. Wealth, legitimately acquired, is ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 edition. Excerpt: ...is a more honorable way. There are legitimate offices of service to the world for which the world will pay well; and, in one of these, at least, every man should have a place, and there do the work of his life, winning competence as he will, and wealth if he may. Wealth, legitimately acquired, is valuable, and it is only valuable when thus acquired. Honest labor for the world is the only true basis of wealth, and the grand pre-requisite for its enjoyment. I have said that everybody looks forward to the time when he can retire from business. There may be something in this beyond the the natural laziness of men, or their desire for ease. It may be that some intuition of the soul overleaps its earthly life, and, seeing the heavenly goal but dimly, plants its reward of labor on this side the river, when it should be placed among the gardens upon the oth bank. Be that as it may, retiring from business has most commonly proved a disastrous operation. There are old men and old women whose work of life is really done, and who may in peace and content sit down and wait their mysterious transit. We love these weary workers, and bid them be happy. But a man who retires from business before the work of life is done, in the full possession of his powers, retires from happiness and health. His stock of vitality is unexpended; and uneasy and discontented must his life be, unless that vitality find an outlet through legitimate channels. A life of active business carves deep channels, and it is very hard to change them. Better far to die in the old harness than to try to put on another. But all may look forward to an age of leisure, lying in the unknown land, where powers, trained to ease of action by labor, will find themselves fed by a vitality immortal...
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*Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, March 3. Order now for best savings* seventeenth edition, 358 pp., brown cloth, ownership markings to endpapers and pastedowns, covers worn and faded, textually clean, a good reading copy only. -If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.
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