While Eeyore frets. . . . . . and Piglet hesitates. . . and Rabbit calculates. . . and Owl pontificates. . . Pooh just is.
True suffering does not know itself and never calculates.
Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs.
You will perceive that economy, scientifically speaking, is a very contracted science; it is in fact a sort of vague mathematics which calculates the causes and effects of man's industry, and shows how it may be best applied.
We now have a global community that calculates how to maximize the benefits for a few at the expense of the majority
It is a wealthy person, indeed, who calculates riches not in gold but in friends.
The criminal element now calculates that crime really does pay.
Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor.
No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.
