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" We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot... "
The Rule of Life: Or a Collection of Select Moral Sentences ... - Page 190
by Watson Adams - 1834 - 264 pages
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Lacon: or, Many things in few words

Charles Caleb Colton - 1821 - 280 pages
...now and then hear a physician crying down regimen, a lawyer, equity, or a priest, morality. CCCXCVII. WE are ruined, not by what we really want, but by...does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy. CCCXCVIII. NO two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch...
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The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine

1822 - 872 pages
...superiority of the accommodations provided for the Christian traveller, when he has finished his course. We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by...does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy. Some are so censorious as to adrance, that those who have discovered a thorough knowledge of all the...
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Laconics: Or Instructive Miscellanies, Selected from the Best Authors ...

General reader - 1827 - 246 pages
...adherence to virtue, and a well regulated life, render our pleasures more solid and lasting. WANTS. — We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by...does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy. — Lacon. The man who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing any...
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The Cottager's monthly visitor, Volume 27

1847 - 442 pages
...and peace in the right place. We must change our barn or our treasury from earth to heaven. — ANON. We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we want. He that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy. — COLTON. The hearts...
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Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Address--to Those who Think

Charles Caleb Colton - 1849 - 524 pages
...should he now and then hear a physician crying down regimen; a lawyer equity ; or a priest, morality. We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by...think we do ; therefore, never go abroad in search of youp wants, if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you ; for he that buys what he...
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Selections for Reading and Speaking, for the Higher Classes in Common Schools

Joshua Leavitt - 1850 - 324 pages
...cause than the martyrs to virtue. We are rained, not by what we want, but by what we think we want. He that buys what he does not want will soon want what he cannot buy. Hurry shows a weak mind, despatch a strong one. Our Master, who had no sin, loved the criminal, while...
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The Parlour magazine of the literature of all nations, Volume 2

1851 - 448 pages
...hour we have passed together will have been profitable to thee and pleasurable to myself. WANTS. — We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by...does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy. THE STORY OF A RUSSIAN PRIEST. DUKING an excursion near St. Petersburg!), Mr. Jerrmann made the acquaintance...
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A Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker: Containing Over a Thousand Subjects ...

Charles Simmons - 1852 - 564 pages
...will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption. Colton. He^'ho buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy. Em. Prodigality has arisen to an exorbitant height among this young and half-grown people. Europeans...
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The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors

Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 pages
...thou compassion, and God will bless thee for it. — Sir W. Raleigh — to his Son. WANTS, OUR. — We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by...therefore, never go abroad in search of your wants ; for if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you. He that buys what he does not want,...
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Oldham's Amusing and Instructive Reader: A Course of Reading, Original and ...

Oliver Oldham - 1854 - 406 pages
...is of small wits, to talk much, and say nothing." WHAT BRINGS RUIN. " We are ruined," says Colton, " not by what we really want, but by what we think we...therefore, never go abroad in search of your wants; for if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you. He that buys what he does not want,...
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