“Sufficient for the day is all that we can enjoy. We cannot eat or drink or wear more than the day's supply of food and raiment; the surplus gives us the care of storing it, and the anxiety of watching against a thief. One staff aids a traveller, but a bundle of staves is a heavy burden. Enough is not only as good as a feast, but is all that the greatest glutton can truly enjoy. This is all that we should expect; a craving for more than this is ungrateful. When our Father does not give us more, we should be content with his daily allowance.” GivingShouldDoeEnoughCareFatherEnjoyDrinkAnxietyBurdenHeavyAidsSufficientThievesStaffConsumerismCravingOur FatherTravellerOverconsumptionUngratefulSurplusBundlesAllowanceHeavy Burdens Book:Morning and Evening Source: Morning and Evening
“Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.” FatherFieldsAnxietyGainsMortalsPrimitiveAgricultureOxen Author:Horace
“A gentleman of Typee can bring up a numerous family of children and give them all a highly respectable cannibal education, with infinitely less toil and anxiety than he expends in the simple process of striking a light; whilst a poor European artisan, who through the instrumentality of a lucifer performs the same operation in one second, is put to his wits' end to provide for his starving offspring that food which the children of a Polynesian father, without troubling their parent, pluck from the branches of every tree around them.” GivingChildrenEndsLightFatherProcessParentSimplePoorProgressTreeAnxietyWitOperationsGentlemanBranchesToilStarvingRespectableOffspringPluckLuciferCannibalArtisansPolynesiansWits End Book:Typee: A Romance of the South Seas (Illustrated & Annotated Edition) Source: Typee: A Romance of the South Seas (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)