Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
“Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.”
— John Ruskin · Increased
The World Motivation
Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
“Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.”
— John Ruskin · Increased
Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
Civilization is the making of civil persons.
No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
The pressure to be timely with news has increased every year.
The pressure has increased; I have to practise more and keep performing better.
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
As I read more and more - and it was not all verse, by any means - my love for the real life of words increased until I knew that I must live with them and in them, always. I knew, in fact, that I must be a writer of words, and nothing else.
My loyalty to my father had increased in proportion to the miles between us.