There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Interpretation
Earning money can be a morally acceptable and innocent pursuit.
In this quote, Samuel Johnson suggests that one of the most innocent ways a person can spend their time is by engaging in work or activities that lead to earning money. It implies that pursuing financial stability is not inherently wrong and can be seen as a positive endeavor, highlighting the importance of work and economic contribution in a person's life.
In practice
In an inspirational speech about career choices.
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
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I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames.
If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.
Our social and economic system cannot march toward better days unless it is inspired by things of the Spirit. It is here that the higher purposes of individualism must find their sustenance.
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