Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3 ORDER Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4 RESOLUTION Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you... Living Like Benjamin: Making Dreams Come True - Seite viivon Capt. Brad Borden - 2007 - 232 SeitenEingeschränkte Leseprobe - Über dieses Buch
| My old pupils - 1849 - 212 Seiten
...you would avoid the fate of Alfred Jenkins, shun his besetting fault. In the words of Dr. Franklin, " Resolve to perform what you ought : perform without fail what you resolve." CHAPTER IV. A Scene — John Churl, the disobedient Boy — Remarks on the Force of Habit — Mrs.... | |
| John Stanley (printer.) - 1849 - 178 Seiten
...virtues and precepts: 1. Temperance.—Eat not to dulness; drink not to elevation. 2. Silence.—Speak not but what may benefit others, or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3. Order.—Let all your things have their places ; let each part of your business have its time. 4. Resolution.—Resolve... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1851 - 224 Seiten
...he laid down for guidance and action : — Temperance . Eat not to fulness ; drink not to elevation. Silence . . . Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. Order .... Let all your things have their places ; let each part of your business have its time. Resolution... | |
| Success - 1851 - 362 Seiten
...meaning. These were: 1. TEMPERANCE.—Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE.—Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3. ORDER.—Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4. RESOLUTION.—Resolve... | |
| 1852 - 894 Seiten
...servants. Temperance. — Eat not to dulness, drink not to elevation, if it be only half a glass of beer. Silence. — Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself, avoid trifling talk. Order. — Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.... | |
| Mrs. L. G. Abell - 1852 - 228 Seiten
...trifling conversation. Let every thing have its place, let each part of your business have its time. Resolve to perform what you ought — perform without fail what you resolve. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself, wasting nothing. Lose no time, be always employed... | |
| Theodore Alois Buckley - 1853 - 446 Seiten
...these virtues I subjoin from another part of his Life: — u 1. Temperance. — Eat not to dulness; drink not to elevation. " 2. Silence. — Speak not...Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; that is, waste nothing. " 6. Industry. — Lose no time; be always employed in something useful ; cut... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 Seiten
...meaning. These names of virtues, with their precepts, were : 1. TEMPERANCE. — Eat not to dulness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. — Speak not...others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3. ORDER.—Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4. RESOLUTION.... | |
| Henry Augustus Boardman - 1853 - 434 Seiten
...carrying out his curious scheme for " arriving at moral perfection," his rule of Order, which ran thus, " Let all your things have their places : let each part of your business have its time," gave him more trouble than any other part of it. By perseverance, however, he mastered it in some good... | |
| Henry Augustus Boardman - 1853 - 432 Seiten
...carrying out his curious scheme for " arriving at moral perfection," his rule of Order, which ran thus, " Let all your things have their places : let each part of your business have its time," gave him more trouble than any other part of it. By perseverance, however, he mastered it in some good... | |
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