Each one to his own trade; then would the cows be well cared for.
A man who has no office to go to--I don't care who he is--is a trial of which you can have no conception.
How many a rustic Milton has passed by, Stifling the speechless longings of his heart, In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies, no longer tameless then, To mould a pin, or fabricate a nail!
This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.
Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.
The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.
He wakes a portion with judicious care; And "Let us worship God!" he says, with solemn air.
I care not twopence.
Not worth twopence, (or I don't care twopence).
Among the dwellings framed by birds In field or forest with nice care, Is none that with the little wren's In snugness may compare.
A man finds he has been wrong at every preceding stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.
Careless, unsocial plant! that loves to dwell 'Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms: Where light-heel'd ghosts and visionary shades, Beneath the wan, cold Moon (as Fame reports) Embodied, thick, perform their mystic rounds No other merriment, dull tree! is thine.