 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...  The North American Review - Stran 2941818Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1842 - 194 strani
...them. Some of these were as follows : 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... | |
 | 1843 - 486 strani
...Franklin, for the regulation of his life : — 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 place ; let each part of your business have its time. Resolution... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1850 - 758 strani
...laid down for guidance and action : Т\третаже — Eat not to fulnesa ; drink not to elevation. Silence — Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. Order — Let all your things hare then- places; let each part of your business have its tune. Resolution... | |
 | My youthful companions - 1846 - 170 strani
...philosopher, Franklin, is worthy of being inscribed in letters of gold over every domestic hearth : — " Resolve to perform what you ought : perform without fail what you resolve." Had my old friend, Matthew Norden, acted upon this maxim from his youth upwards, he would have escaped... | |
 | 1744 - 726 strani
...disappointments. DR. FRANKLIN'S RULES OF LIFE. 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 place ; let each of your duties have its time. Resolution.... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - 1848 - 534 strani
...This schedule was as follows : — 1. TEMPERANCE. — Eat not to dulness ; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. — Speak not but what may benefit others,...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, Jared Sparks - 1848 - 676 strani
...virtues, with their precepts, were; 1. TEMPERANCE. — Eat not to dulness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. — Speak not but what may benefit others...have its time. 4. RESOLUTION. — Resolve to perform w/iat you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. 5. FRUGALITY. — Make no expense but to do... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1841 - 264 strani
...govern ourselves. 2. In the morning, think what thou hast to do ; at night, ask what thou hast done. 3. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. 4. Be constantly engaged in something useful, either to yourselves or to others. ry thing to its proper... | |
 | My old pupils - 1849 - 212 strani
...you would avoid the fate of Alfred Jenkins, shun his besetting fault. In the words of Dr. Franklin, " Resolve to perform what you ought : perform without fail what you resolve." CHAPTER IV. A Scene — John Churl, the disobedient Boy — Remarks on the Force of Habit — Mrs.... | |
 | John Stanley (printer.) - 1849 - 178 strani
...virtues and precepts: 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... | |
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