"He who is plenteously provided for from..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
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“There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure.”
“Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.”
“Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.”
More on Self Sufficiency
“Every New Englander might easily raise all his own breadstuffs in this land of rye and Indian corn, and not depend on distant andfluctuating markets for them. Yet so far are we from simplicity and independence that, in Concord, fresh and sweet meal is rarely sold in the shops, and hominy and corn in a still coarser form are hardly used by any.”
“You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself.”
“For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living.”