The golden rules of life; or, Every body's friend1835 |
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... Real Knowledge . - There is no difference between knowledge and temperance ; for he who knows what is good , and embraces it , who knows what is bad , and avoids it , is both learned and temperate . But they who know very well what ...
... Real Knowledge . - There is no difference between knowledge and temperance ; for he who knows what is good , and embraces it , who knows what is bad , and avoids it , is both learned and temperate . But they who know very well what ...
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... real ones . The worst that can be said of her is , that she is a kind deceiver , and an obliging flatterer.- Fitzosborne , Rashness . - Make no vows of enmity while you are smarting with a sense of neglect or cruelty ; pain speaks with ...
... real ones . The worst that can be said of her is , that she is a kind deceiver , and an obliging flatterer.- Fitzosborne , Rashness . - Make no vows of enmity while you are smarting with a sense of neglect or cruelty ; pain speaks with ...
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... real beauty , instead of those preposterous fashions , and fantastical draperies of dress , which , while they conceal some new defects of person , expose so many defects of mind , and sacrifice to ostentatious finery , all those mild ...
... real beauty , instead of those preposterous fashions , and fantastical draperies of dress , which , while they conceal some new defects of person , expose so many defects of mind , and sacrifice to ostentatious finery , all those mild ...
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... Real Love . - If those who are united solely by affec- tion are not the best , they are certainly the happiest por- tion of society . - Zimmerman . Riches . The greatest pleasure of life is love ; the greatest treasure , contentment ...
... Real Love . - If those who are united solely by affec- tion are not the best , they are certainly the happiest por- tion of society . - Zimmerman . Riches . The greatest pleasure of life is love ; the greatest treasure , contentment ...
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... Real Victory . He that overcomes his passions , con- quers his greatest enemies . Religion . — It is a great disgrace to religion to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness , and a severe exactor of pensive looks and ...
... Real Victory . He that overcomes his passions , con- quers his greatest enemies . Religion . — It is a great disgrace to religion to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness , and a severe exactor of pensive looks and ...
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Page 10 - The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit, are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer ; but if he sees you at a billiard table, or hears your voice at a tavern, -when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day : demands it before he can receive it in a lump.
Page 13 - Industry all easy, as Poor Richard says; and He that riseth late must trot all Day, and shall scarce overtake his Business at Night; while Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him...
Page 8 - In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
Page 6 - And again, Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but Poor Dick says, It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.
Page 27 - What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero, the wise, the good, or the great man, very often lie hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have dis-interred, and have brought to light.
Page 29 - Dissimulation in youth, is the forerunner of perfidy in old age. Its first appearance is the fatal omen of growing depravity, and future shame.
Page 8 - Take Nature's path, and mad opinions leave ; All states can reach it, and all heads conceive; Obvious her goods, in no extreme they dwell ; There needs but thinking right, and meaning well; And, mourn our various portions as we please, Equal is common sense and common ease. Remember, Man, " the Universal Cause Acts not by partial, but by gen'ral laws ;" And makes what Happiness we justly call, Subsist not in the good of one, but all.
Page 17 - A fat kitchen makes a lean will; and Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting. If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of getting. The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her outgoes are greater than her incomes.
Page 5 - When a king asked Euclid, the mathematician, •whether he could not explain his art to him in a more compendious manner ? he was answered, that there was no royal way to geometry.
Page 12 - I lose the reality : unmindful that the present time alone is ours, the future is yet unborn, and the past is dead, and can only live (as parents in their children) in the actions it has produced.