Lacie

"Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them. Their fingers, from excessive toil, are too clumsy and tremble too much for that. Actually, the laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his labor would be depreciated in the market. He has no time to be anything but a machine. How can he remember well his ignorance- which his growth requires- who has so often to use his knowledge? We should feed and clothe him gratuitously sometimes, and recruit him with our cordials, before we judge of him. The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be perserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.""work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love, but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger""communication without intelligence is noise. intelligence without communication is irrelevant""the best thing a man can do for his culture, when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor"ps. i don't know who jeffrey williams is but he likes linux which is rad. his name is just part of the image i stole from his page. the background is sweet because you see this young person hanging out on the beach but then there's this cyber reality too, entangled in it. seems to be the story of my life.