When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.
From George William Russell
Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.
The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown all over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet.
The relation of landlord and tenant is not an ideal one, but any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.
I lay this down as a fundamental proposition, which I do not think will be denied, that whoever controls the taxation and trade policy of a country controls its destiny and the entire character of its civilization.
Nothing exasperates the spirit in man more than power which seems unconquerable and which makes impotent all protest.
The victors in great wars have always been spiritually defeated by the conquered.
We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell.
We have control over the work of our hands, but little over the working of the soul. But yet we must yield to it, for without it we have nothing.
We realise that natural aptitudes are not interchangeable, and each person must, of biological or spiritual necessity, practise the art for which he is fitted.
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