| William M. Thayer - 1860 - 358 páginas
...and proceeded to read the following : 1. "TEMPERANCE. — Eat not to dulness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. — Speak not but what may benefit others...Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; that is, waste nothing. 6. INDUSTRY. — Lose 110 time; be always employed in something useful ; cut... | |
| Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1860 - 538 páginas
...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. Resolution. — Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you rrtolve. Frugality.... | |
| William Makepeace Thayer - 1860 - 342 páginas
...Temperance. — Eat not to dulness; drink not to elevation. " 2. Silence. — Speak not but what maybenefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. "...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... | |
| William M. Thayer - 1861 - 304 páginas
...following were the virtues : — " 1. Temperance. — Eat not to dulness ; drink not to elevation. " 2. Silence. — Speak not but what may benefit others...let each part of your business have its time. " 4. Eesolution. — Resolve to perform what you ought ; perform without fail what you resolve. " 5. Frugality.... | |
| Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 páginas
...life : — 1. Temperance.— Eat not to dulness : drink not to elevation. 2. Silence.— Speak nothing but what may benefit others or yourself : avoid trifling conversation. 3. Order. — Let all things have their places : let each part of your business have its time. 4. Resolution. — Resolve... | |
| 106 páginas
...Dr. Franklm for the regulation of his lifeTemperance— 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 place; let each of your duties have its time. Resolution —... | |
| Marcius Willson - 1863 - 202 páginas
.... Resolve to do what is right. Be sure that what you resolve is right, and then never fail of doing what you resolve. 5. FRUGALITY .... Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself, j That is, waste nothing. 6. INDUSTRY Lose no time. A waste of time is a waste of life. 7. SINCERITY... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, Epes Sargent - 1866 - 270 páginas
...virtues, with their precepts, were : 1. TEMPERANCE^ — Eat not to dulness ; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. — Speak not but what may benefit others...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... | |
| Oliver Optic - 1873 - 948 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
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