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Excerpt from British Sea-Weeds, Vol. 1: Drawn From Professor Harvey's "Phycologia Britannica"; With Descriptions, an Amateur's Synopsis, Rules for Laying Out Sea-Weeds, an Order for Arranging Them in the Herbarium, and an Appendix of New Species
Even the happy people of whom the strange phrase is used, that money is no object to them, cannot command fate altogether. They are mortal in respect of their minds; and cannot, with all appliances, get away from the inexorable law which rules that whoever would find the world interesting must work out an interest in it for himself. Much may be done, it is true, by unlimited wealth, to stave off the hour of ennui, but nothing answers so effectually as a healthy, earnest employment, whether of body or mind. Everything but what a man labours for becomes weari some to him after a time-a cherished occupation never; for although on some particular day he may have tired himself in its pursuit, the object pursued is as dear to him as ever, when the next morning's sun wakes him from the blessing of rest to the still higher blessing of exertion.
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