Body
Our body is our temple. Here are tips, suggestions and aids in keeping it fine tuned for living the life you’ve been blessed with.
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Ben Franklin’s Maxims on Industry
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man heathy, wealthy and wise. Diligence is the mother of good luck. God helps them that help themselves. At the working man’s house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. For industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them. By diligence and patience the mouse ate in… Continue reading
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The Worth Of Each Day
From Moral Letters to Lucilius, 65 A.D. By Seneca Continue to act thus, my dear Lucilius – set yourself free for your own sake; gather and save your time, which ‘til lately has been forced from you, or filched away, or has merely slipped from your hands. Make yourself believe the truth of my words… Continue reading
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The Strenuous Life
Excerpt from The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses, 1902 By Theodore Roosevelt I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere… Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Henry David Thoreau
“It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?” ~Henry David Thoreau Continue reading
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We Do Not Labor That We May Be Idle
From Nicomachean Ethics, c. 350 B.C. By Aristotle We do not labor that we may be idle; but, as Anarchis justly said, we are idle that we may labor with more effect; that is, we have recourse to sports and amusements as refreshing cordials after contentious exertions, that, having reposed in such diversions for a… Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~William F. Buckley Jr.
“Industry is the enemy of melancholy.” ~William F. Buckley Jr. Continue reading
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Now
From Readings for Young Men, Merchants, and Men of Business, 1859 “Now” is the constant syllable ticking from the clock of Time. “Now” is the watchword of the wise. “Now” is on the banner of the prudent. Let us keep this little word always in our mind; and, whenever anything presents itself to us in… Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Bishop Richard Cumberland
“It is better to wear out than to rust out.” ~Bishop Richard Cumberland Continue reading
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