The Secret Of Wealth
132 total pages.
There is some man in your own town whom you have always admired and about whose evident freedom from worry and care you have always wondered. You know him to be a successful man and you almost envy him. At least you would like to know the secret of his apparent success and happiness. The next time you meet him on the street, stop him and ask him. Such a man is always glad to impart the secret of his success to any worthy person. And when this man has told you the secret it could be summed up in these words: He knows how to save; he saves physical effort, mental effort, tangible things such as food and clothing and--money. It was some years after the Declaration of Independence before this Country became really free and independent. It may take some of us a few years after the declaration to realize absolute freedom and independence, but those who have the courage to make the declaration will finally win and those who have not the courage will be like the seven members of Congress, who did not sign the Declaration of Independence. Most of us do not even know who they were; they have passed into oblivion. "Men do not have their choice whether they will accept life or not; but they can choose how they will live."--Emerson.
CHAPTER VII "Freedom hath a thousand charms to show, that slaves how e'er contented never know."--Cowper. INDEPENDENCE in the full sense of the word means absolute freedom. "No man is free, who is not master of himself" and no man is master of himself who is a slave to any man or thing. A man may be "free, white and twenty-one" and still be an abject slave. He may be a slave to a habit, a slave to fashion or a slave to his job. Being a slave to a habit, regardless of what sort of a habit it may be, is probably the most abject form of slavery. The free man who directs his own movements is not a slave to any habit. Slavery to fashion is one of the most disastrous forms of slavery because it not only impoverishes but always leaves unhappiness in its wake.
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The Secret Of Wealth