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
| Oliver Optic - 1873 - 948 Seiten
...places. [Do you ever lose anything by carelessness?] Let each part of your business have its time. " Resolution. — Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. [That is, if the resolution is a good one : " bad promises are better broken than kept."] "Frugality.... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - 1867 - 38 Seiten
...senseless clamor, " a Pillar steadfast in the storm." No one better illustrated Franklin's maxim : " Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve." He was of course thought to be obstinate by those who brought their own obstinacy into conflict with... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 426 Seiten
...its meaning. These names of virtues, with their precepts were : i. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness ; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but...Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; /'. c., waste nothing. 6. INDUSTRY. Lose no time ; be always employ'd in something useful ; cut oft'... | |
| 1870 - 268 Seiten
...beloved and respected. 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... | |
| 1871 - 784 Seiten
...of the following virtues, which he resolved to practice : " 1. TEMPERANCE. — Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. — Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself j avoid trifling conversation. 3. ORDER. — Let all things have their places ; let each part of your... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - 1871 - 356 Seiten
...senseless clamor, "a Pillar steadfast in the storm." No one better illustrated Franklin's maxim : " Resolve to perform what you ought ; perform without fail what you resolve." 'He was of course thought to be obstinate by those who brought their own obstinacy into conflict with... | |
| Godfrey Golding - 1873 - 348 Seiten
...in darkness. Be not among wine-bibbers; FRANKLIN'S VIRTUES. 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. 0 4. RESOLUTION. — Resolve... | |
| Philip George and son, ltd - 1874 - 296 Seiten
...in-dus-try de-ceit o-mitt-ing for-bear tol-er-ate re-sent-ing 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 ;... | |
| Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1874 - 876 Seiten
...himself a better and happier man : — Temperance. — Eat not to fulness; drink not to elevation. Silence. — Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. Rfxolution. — Resolve to perform what you ought ; perform without fail what you resolve. Frugality.... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow - 1875 - 579 Seiten
...its meaning. These names of virtues, with their precepts were : 1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness ; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but...Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; ie, waste nothing. 6. INDUSTRY. Lose no time ; be always employ'd in something useful ; cut off all... | |
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