Retirement
Ramsdell retired for almost twenty years. He died in Manistee on April 22, 1917. There were several articles written the following day in the local Manistee newspaper. The editor of the News Advocate commented on Ramsdell's life in an article:
| “ | A simple (funeral) ceremony, but fraught with deepest significance, was this in which 'Finished' was written to the career of Thomas Jefferson Ramsdell, pioneer, patriarch, and distinguished citizen. | ” |
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Famous quotes containing the word retirement:
“He who comes into Assemblies only to gratifie his Curiosity, and not to make a Figure, enjoys the Pleasures of Retirement in a[n] ...exquisite Degree.”
—Richard Steele (1672–1729)
“Douglas. Now remains a sweet reversion—
We may boldly spend, upon the hope
Of what is to come in.
A comfort of retirement lives in this.
Hotspur. A rendezvous, a home to fly unto.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)