10 Acres Enough - More Wisdom

Posted on Thursday, May 1, 2008 at 6:49 AM

As I continue to read through this book, I am still finding good tidbits of wisdom. 

I again read what care this man took in making his wife happy out of his selfless duty to her as a husband.  When searching for some land with a house on it he remarked:

"I was determined that she should be made comfortable from the start, not only because she deserved to be made so, but to make sure that no cause for future discontent should arise.  Indeed, she was really the best judge on this matter.  She knew what the six children needed; she was the model of a housekeeper.....while her judgement on most things was so correct, that I felt confident if she were fully satisfied, the whole enterprise would be a successful one.  I was unwilling to take a single step in opposition either to her wishes or her judgement.  Indeed, I had long since made up my mind, from observation of the good or bad luck of other men, that he who happens to be blessed with a wife possessing good sense and good judgement, suceeds or fails in life as he is accustomed to consult her in his business enterprises.  There is a world of caution, shrewdness, and latent wisdom in such women, which their husbands too frequently disregard to their ruin."

Concerning hardwork and diligence:

"I have long since discovered that most things of value in this world come to us only as a result of diligent unremitted labor.  The man, even upon ten acres, who is content to see around him only barren fields, scanty crops, and starving animals, does not deserve the name of farmer.  Unless he can devise ways and means for changing such a condition of things, and cease ridiculing all propositions of amendment that may be pointed out to him, he had better be up and off, and give place to a live man."

And my favorite:

"The fragrance of a fat and ample manure heap is as grateful to the nostrils of a good farmer, as the fumes of the tavern are notoriously attractive to those of a poor one."

I'll share more I come across.

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Posted by Schatzi on Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 3:59 PM - Link

Just happened across your blog and stopped to say Hil....great posts and pictures

Blessings,

Connie