Life Poetry Quotes - Page 38

Quote from “"Old Jonathan's" Jottings; Or, Light And Lessons From Daily Life (1869)”

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

- David Alfred Doudney

Quote from “Poor Richard's Almanack”

Rather go to bed supperless than to rise in debt.

Benjamin Franklin

Quote from “The Ladder Of St. Augustine”

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Quote from “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (1849)”

My life has been the poem
I would have writ,
But I could not both live
and utter it.

Henry David Thoreau