
“A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.”
No. 574 (30 July 1714).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
Some final, unfinished thoughts a few weeks before his death aged forty-six, in 1637, Essay on Nicholas Ferrar, Jane Falloon, Heart of Pilgrimage-A Study of George Hertbert, Author House,Milton Keynes 2007 ISBN 978-1-4259-7755-9
“A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.”
No. 574 (30 July 1714).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
Quoted by Aldous Huxley, in The Perennial Philosophy https://archive.org/details/perennialphilosp035505mbp (1945)
“She loves him more than he will ever know
He loves her more than he will ever show”
Swap Meet.
Song lyrics, Bleach (1989)
“a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.”
Source: The Pilgrim's Progress
“The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.”
Friedrich Schleiermacher, Christ's Resurrection an Image of Our New Life The World's Great Sermons, Volume 3 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11713 by Grenville Kleiser