 | 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...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. In the midst... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...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. JOHN B. GOUGH... | |
 | 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...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-nails. . . . The nation... | |
 | 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...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. In the midst... | |
 | 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...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. In the midst of... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, George Henry Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - 1897 - 684 pages
...braced for better work and better living. " Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity, " he reiterates : " 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 thumbnail." He was a poet... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 608 pages
...braced for better work and better living. " Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity, " he reiterates : " 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 thumbnail." He was a poet... | |
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... ^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. 
