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
| 1853 - 844 Seiten
...— Speak not but what would benefit others or yourself ; avoid trifling conversation. Order — let your things have their places ; let each part of your business have its time. Resolution — Resolve to perform what you ought ; perform without fail what you resolve. Frugality... | |
| Random readings - 1854 - 204 Seiten
...Silence.—Speak not but what might 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.—Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. Frugality.—Make... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 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...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 - 1855 - 402 Seiten
...meaning. These names of virtues, with their precepts, were : 1. TEMPERANCE. — Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. — Speak not...avoid trifling conversation. 3. ORDER. — Let all things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4. RESOLUTION. — Resolve... | |
| William Jones (F.S.A.) - 1857 - 468 Seiten
...elevation. Silence. — Speak not but what might 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. — Resolve to perform what you ought ; perform without fail what you resolve. Frugality.... | |
| 1858 - 348 Seiten
...fully expressed the extent I gave to its meaning. These were : 1. TEMPERANCE. — Eat not to dullness ; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. — Speak not...places; let each part of your business have its time. 4. KESOLUTION. — Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. 5. FRUGALITY.... | |
| William Chambers - 1858 - 378 Seiten
...to elevation. [The precept, drink nothing at all which is intoxicating, might have been preferable.] 2. SILENCE. — Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself: avoid trifling conversation. 3. ORDBB. — Let all your things have their places: let each part of your business have its time. 4.... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1858 - 276 Seiten
...rules 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... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1859 - 710 Seiten
...meaning. These names of virtues, with their precepts, were; 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 - 1859 - 680 Seiten
...precepts, 1. TEMPERANCE. — Eat drink not to elevation. not to dulness : 2. SILENCE.— Speak not hut what may benefit others or yourself: avoid trifling...places: let each part of your business have its time. 4. RESOLUTKW.-i-Resolve to perform what you ought: perform without fail what you resolve. 5. FRUGALITY.... | |
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