The golden rules of life; or, Every body's friend1835 |
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... certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good . We must distinguish between felicity and pros- perity for prosperity leads often to ambition , and am- bition to disappointment ; the course is then over - the wheel turns round ...
... certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good . We must distinguish between felicity and pros- perity for prosperity leads often to ambition , and am- bition to disappointment ; the course is then over - the wheel turns round ...
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... certainly to perform ; and when you have so promised , be true to your word . - Sir Matthew Hale . Vanity . The mouth of a wise man is in his heart , the heart of a fool is in his mouth , because what he knoweth or thinketh he uttereth ...
... certainly to perform ; and when you have so promised , be true to your word . - Sir Matthew Hale . Vanity . The mouth of a wise man is in his heart , the heart of a fool is in his mouth , because what he knoweth or thinketh he uttereth ...
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... certainly the happiest por- tion of society . - Zimmerman . Riches . The greatest pleasure of life is love ; the greatest treasure , contentment ; the greatest possession , health ; the greatest ease is sleep ; and the best medicine , a ...
... certainly the happiest por- tion of society . - Zimmerman . Riches . The greatest pleasure of life is love ; the greatest treasure , contentment ; the greatest possession , health ; the greatest ease is sleep ; and the best medicine , a ...
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... certainly of more consequence to a man , that he has learnt to govern his passions in spite of temptation , to be just in his dealings , to be temperate in his pleasures , to support himself with for- titude under his misfortunes , to ...
... certainly of more consequence to a man , that he has learnt to govern his passions in spite of temptation , to be just in his dealings , to be temperate in his pleasures , to support himself with for- titude under his misfortunes , to ...
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... certainly its mother.- Burton . Honesty and Justice . - He only is worthy of esteemn that knows what is just and honest , and dares do it— that is master of his own passions , and scorns to be a s'ave to another's . Such a one , in the ...
... certainly its mother.- Burton . Honesty and Justice . - He only is worthy of esteemn that knows what is just and honest , and dares do it— that is master of his own passions , and scorns to be a s'ave to another's . Such a one , in the ...
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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.