The golden rules of life; or, Every body's friend1835 |
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... Industry - Love labour ; if you do not want it for food , you may for physic . Good Hours . - Avoid night studies , if you would pre- serve your health and intellects . Obstinacy . He that declines physic till he be awakened by illness ...
... Industry - Love labour ; if you do not want it for food , you may for physic . Good Hours . - Avoid night studies , if you would pre- serve your health and intellects . Obstinacy . He that declines physic till he be awakened by illness ...
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... Industry . There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to attain to ; it is the gift of tongues , and makes a man understood and valued in all countries and by all nations ; it is the philosopher's stone that turns all ...
... Industry . There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to attain to ; it is the gift of tongues , and makes a man understood and valued in all countries and by all nations ; it is the philosopher's stone that turns all ...
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... industry and frugality ; that is , waste neither time nor money , but make the best use of both . Without industry and frugality nothing will do , and with them every thing . - Franklin Government .-- A man must first govern himself ere ...
... industry and frugality ; that is , waste neither time nor money , but make the best use of both . Without industry and frugality nothing will do , and with them every thing . - Franklin Government .-- A man must first govern himself ere ...
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Golden rules. Sloth . - Sloth makes all things difficult , but industry all easy ; and he that riseth late must trot all day , and shall scarce overtake his business at night : while lazi- ness travels so slowly , that poverty soon ...
Golden rules. Sloth . - Sloth makes all things difficult , but industry all easy ; and he that riseth late must trot all day , and shall scarce overtake his business at night : while lazi- ness travels so slowly , that poverty soon ...
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... Industry - As the sweetest rose grows upon the sharpest prickle , so the hardest labours bring forth the sweetest profit . Greatness and Ingratitude -As he that can revenge an injury and will not , discovers a great and magnani- mous ...
... Industry - As the sweetest rose grows upon the sharpest prickle , so the hardest labours bring forth the sweetest profit . Greatness and Ingratitude -As he that can revenge an injury and will not , discovers a great and magnani- mous ...
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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.