Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that...
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Elisabeth Elliot
Time is a game played beautifully by children.
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Heraclitus
The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure is good? If, then, it is asserted that there is a comprehensive formula, including all things which are in themselves...
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John Stuart Mill
A day unemployed is like a bagel- even when it's bad, it's still pretty good...
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CrimethInc.
Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity of care, we are not happy. And what of contemplation? Its very premise is freedom from the fetters of workaday...
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Josef Pieper
More Quotes By H. L. Mencken
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy but that it is a bore.
It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law than it takes to operate a taxi cab or fry a pan of fish.
A prohibitionist is the sort of man one wouldn't care to drink with - even if he drank.
