The golden rules of life; or, Every body's friend1835 |
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... speak truth , however discovered , have a right to be heard ; they who assist others in dis- covering it , have the yet higher claim to be applauded.— Parr's Sermons . Flattery . The heart has no avenue so open as that of flattery ...
... speak truth , however discovered , have a right to be heard ; they who assist others in dis- covering it , have the yet higher claim to be applauded.— Parr's Sermons . Flattery . The heart has no avenue so open as that of flattery ...
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... speak of yourself , pro- vided nothing is advanced in favour ; but I cannot help suspecting that those who abuse themselves , are in reality angling for approbation . - Zimmerman . Intemperance . Gluttony is the source of all our ...
... speak of yourself , pro- vided nothing is advanced in favour ; but I cannot help suspecting that those who abuse themselves , are in reality angling for approbation . - Zimmerman . Intemperance . Gluttony is the source of all our ...
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... speaking well , rather than doing well . But their manners ought to be their great concern.- Dr. Fuller . Perseverance . The greater the difficulty , the more glory in surmounting it ; skilful Pilots gain their repu- tation from storms ...
... speaking well , rather than doing well . But their manners ought to be their great concern.- Dr. Fuller . Perseverance . The greater the difficulty , the more glory in surmounting it ; skilful Pilots gain their repu- tation from storms ...
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... speak be worth hearing whether there be either wit or sense in what they are about to say , and whether it be adapted to the time when , the place where , and the person to whom it is spoken . — Tatler . Ancestry . He that boasteth of ...
... speak be worth hearing whether there be either wit or sense in what they are about to say , and whether it be adapted to the time when , the place where , and the person to whom it is spoken . — Tatler . Ancestry . He that boasteth of ...
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... speak ; the time , matter , manner the next to it is silence . Behaviour . — The best knowledge of behaviour and converse , is observing decencies . Education . What sculpture is to a block of marble , education is to a human soul . The ...
... speak ; the time , matter , manner the next to it is silence . Behaviour . — The best knowledge of behaviour and converse , is observing decencies . Education . What sculpture is to a block of marble , education is to a human soul . 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.