He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.
A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
The subject must be thought of in terms of the 20th century, of houses he lives in and places he works, in terms of the kind of light the windows in these places let through and by which we see him every day.
The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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