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“A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.”

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Thomas Tusser, an English poet, was born in October 1524 and died on May 3, 1580. He is renowned for his pastoral poetry, which often depicts rural life and the lives of farmers. more

Book:Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,: As Well for the Champion Or Open Country, as for the Woodland Or Several; Together with A Book of Huswifery. Being a Calendar of Rural and Domestic Economy, for Every Month in the Year; and Exhibiting a Picture of the Agriculture, Customs, and Manners of England, in the Sixteenth Century

Source: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,: As Well for the Champion Or Open Country, as for the Woodland Or Several; Together with A Book of Huswifery. Being a Calendar of Rural and Domestic Economy, for Every Month in the Year; and Exhibiting a Picture of the Agriculture, Customs, and Manners of England, in the Sixteenth Century

“Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?”

People Shows Feelings Happiness Strength Weakness

Book:At Seventy: A Journal

Source: At Seventy: A Journal

“For art is order, but it is born out of the chaos of life.”

Art Order Born Art Is Chaos

Book:From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton

Source: From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton

“Joy, happiness ... we do not question. They are beyond question, maybe. A matter of being. But pain forces us to think, and to make connections ... to discover what has been happening to cause it. And, curiously enough, pain draws us to other human beings in a significant way, whereas joy or happiness to some extent, isolates.”