Excerpt from Scenes and Recollections of Fly-Fishing: In Northumberland, Cumberland, and Westmorland
To man made for labour, due intervals of relaxation are no less necessary, than sleep is to the body when exhausted by watching; and truly unhappy may that mortal be reckoned, to whom nothing affords amusement. He who is exhausted by the more weighty labours, has the greatest need of rest; but rest, not tempered with pleasure, becomes torpid insensibility. The principal reward of labour, which the Creator has granted to man, is leisure with enjoyment; and mortals generally exert their utmost efforts to obtain it.
Reflections on the Study of Nature, translated from the Latin of Linn?us by Sir J. E. Smith.
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