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“The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple.”

Life Simple Creative Rich Environment Trouble Life And Living Garden Environmental Simplicity Joyful Simple Life Minimalism Simple Living Life Living Living A Simple Life Life Is Simple

Author:Doris Janzen Longacre

“Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.”

Life Made Life Is Pleasure Poor Rich Aim Possession Noble Subservient Ignoble

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“The rich pearl of life, Soon moulders in its blackened urn, the tomb.”

Life Rich Pearls Tombs

Book:The Fall of the Indian: With Other Poems

Source: The Fall of the Indian: With Other Poems

“If I had a dollar for every million-dollar idea I've had, I'd be rich.”

Ifs Life Ideas Millions Rich Dollars Million Dollars

Author:Greg Meyer

“Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns, Amid the rustle of his planted hills, Life overflows without ambitious pains; And rains down life until the basin spills, And mounts more dizzy high the more it rains As though to choose whatever shape it wills.”

Men Life Pain Rich Shapes Rain Riches Hills Ambitious Lawns Spills Rich Man Flowering Overflow Dizzy

Book:The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

“I knew the poor, I knew the hideous death they die, when famine lays its bleak hand on the door; I knew the rich, sated with merriment, who yet are sad.”

Life Hands Dies Poor Knowledge Rich Doors Experience Lays Famine Hideous Bleak Merriment Sated

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him, and force on him, a sort of course and goal; a safe and beaten, though a circuitous, course. A great part of his guidance is secure against fatal error, is withdrawn from his control. The rich, again, has his whole life to guide, without goal or barrier, save of his own choosing, and, tempted, is too likely to guide it ill.”

Ifs Men Life May Made Whole Courses Force Goal Poverty Rich Ready Safe Errors Ill Guides Whole Life Secure Guidance Barriers Surround Beaten Tempted Hamper

Book:The Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle