Life doubled by the economy of time. By the author of “How a Penny became a Thousand Pounds” [Robert Kemp-Philp]. |
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... spends the intervening period in sleep and sluggish inactivity . But in civilized life , where men enjoy countless privileges , where they dwell in comfortable houses , have wholesome beds to lie upon , and a variety of food to eat ...
... spends the intervening period in sleep and sluggish inactivity . But in civilized life , where men enjoy countless privileges , where they dwell in comfortable houses , have wholesome beds to lie upon , and a variety of food to eat ...
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... spend not to the utmost of what thou canst afford , that the providence of thy youth may be a comfort to thy old age . " Let thine own business engage thy attention , leave the care of the state to the governors thereof . " Let not thy ...
... spend not to the utmost of what thou canst afford , that the providence of thy youth may be a comfort to thy old age . " Let thine own business engage thy attention , leave the care of the state to the governors thereof . " Let not thy ...
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... spend them , whether well or ill , we may be sure it will turn to some account ; there is no medium or remedy , but we must be infinitely gainers or losers by it . This is evident to all who believe in a future state . However , that ...
... spend them , whether well or ill , we may be sure it will turn to some account ; there is no medium or remedy , but we must be infinitely gainers or losers by it . This is evident to all who believe in a future state . However , that ...
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... spend their younger years in those things which afterwards they are ashamed of , when experience hath taught them the wisdom of men ! How great a part of our remaining time is taken up in the necessities of nature , about food and ...
... spend their younger years in those things which afterwards they are ashamed of , when experience hath taught them the wisdom of men ! How great a part of our remaining time is taken up in the necessities of nature , about food and ...
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... spent in recreations , visits , unprofitable discourse , impertinent thoughts , journeys , sickness , and innumerable other occa- sions , some allowable , some unavoidable , and many needless ! After this , how little Time remains ...
... spent in recreations , visits , unprofitable discourse , impertinent thoughts , journeys , sickness , and innumerable other occa- sions , some allowable , some unavoidable , and many needless ! After this , how little Time remains ...
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Página 66 - AWAKE, my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run ; Shake off dull sloth, and joyful rise To pay thy morning sacrifice.
Página 87 - INDUSTRY Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
Página 19 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep ; so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Página 66 - Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed : Teach me to die, that so I may Rise glorious at the awful day.
Página 86 - In the various enumerations of the moral virtues I had met with in my reading, I found the catalogue more or less numerous, as different writers included more or fewer ideas under the same name. Temperance, for example, was by some confined to eating and drinking; while by others it was extended to mean the moderating every other pleasure, appetite, inclination or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition.
Página 86 - I concluded, at length, that the mere speculative conviction that it was our interest to be completely virtuous, was not sufficient to prevent our slipping ; and that the contrary habits must be broken, and good ones acquired and established, before we can have any dependence on a steady, uniform rectitude of conduct.
Página 87 - Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly; and, if you speak, speak accordingly. 8. JUSTICE Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty. 9. MODERATION Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
Página 91 - ... satisfaction of seeing them diminish. To avoid the trouble of renewing now and then my little book, which, by scraping out the marks on the paper of old faults to make room for new ones in a new course, became full of holes...
Página 97 - I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to much hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct in language, and yet I generally carried my point.
Página 78 - An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.