 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
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2006 - 168 Seiten
...a short, and often revealing, definition: Temperance: Eat not to dullness; 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:... | |
 | Lloyd F. Scott - 2006 - 412 Seiten
...our wise patriot forefather, Benjamin Franklin. As senior statesman in 1784, he penned these words: "Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve." In 1755, he also espoused a government value system for protection of the people's freedom. It offered... | |
 | Larry Chang - 2006 - 826 Seiten
...1533-1592 ~ Essais, 1580 Diligence is the mother of good fortune. ~ Miguel de Cervantes, 1547-1616 ~ Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve. ~ Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790 ~ goest. Determine never to be idle ... It is wonderful how much may... | |
 | Ken Stocker, Jim Stocker - 2006 - 326 Seiten
...carried with him, listing 13 virtues: 3 1) Temperance: ... drink not to elevation. 2) Silence: ... avoid trifling conversation, 3) Order: Let all your things have their places ... 4) Resolution: ... perform without fail what you resolve. 5) Frugality: ... ie waste nothing. 6)... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2007 - 258 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 unnecessary... | |
 | Lorraine Smith Pangle - 2007 - 300 Seiten
...omissions.36 His thirteen virtues, with their definitions, are these: 1. Temperance. Eat not to Dulness. Drink not to Elevation. 2. Silence. Speak not but...without fail what you resolve. 5 . Frugality. Make no Expence but to do good to others or yourself: ie Waste nothing. 6. Industry. Lose no Time. Be always... | |
 | Stuart Bailey, Peter Bilak - 2007 - 198 Seiten
...drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may beneHt others or yourself; avoid trilling conversation. 3. ORDER. Let all your things have their...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 unnecessary... | |
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