Essays and Letters, Volumes 1-2R. & W.A.Bartow & Company, 1821 |
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... look go to sorting them out . She cries , " Don't thee trouble thyself , neighbour . Let them play a little ; I'll put all to rights before I go . " But things are never so put to rights but that I find a great deal of work to do after ...
... look go to sorting them out . She cries , " Don't thee trouble thyself , neighbour . Let them play a little ; I'll put all to rights before I go . " But things are never so put to rights but that I find a great deal of work to do after ...
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... look with compas- sion upon my conduct ; show me , then , the path which leads up to that constant and invariable good , which I have heard you so beautifully describe , and which you seem so fully to possess . Phil . There are few men ...
... look with compas- sion upon my conduct ; show me , then , the path which leads up to that constant and invariable good , which I have heard you so beautifully describe , and which you seem so fully to possess . Phil . There are few men ...
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... looks , as ab- solutely necessary to produce even your own darling sole good , pleasure ; for self - denial is never a duty , or a reasonable action , but as it is a natural means of procuring more pleasure than you can taste without it ...
... looks , as ab- solutely necessary to produce even your own darling sole good , pleasure ; for self - denial is never a duty , or a reasonable action , but as it is a natural means of procuring more pleasure than you can taste without it ...
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... look to the end , and regard consequences ; and if , through want of attention , we had erred , and exceeded the bounds which nature had set us - we were then oblig- ed , for our own sakes , to refrain or deny ourselves a present ...
... look to the end , and regard consequences ; and if , through want of attention , we had erred , and exceeded the bounds which nature had set us - we were then oblig- ed , for our own sakes , to refrain or deny ourselves a present ...
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... Look , Horatio , mto the sacred book of nature , read your own nature , and view the relation which other men stand in to you , and you to them , and you will immediately see what constitutes human happiness , and , consequent- ly ...
... Look , Horatio , mto the sacred book of nature , read your own nature , and view the relation which other men stand in to you , and you to them , and you will immediately see what constitutes human happiness , and , consequent- ly ...
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Page 85 - So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality, if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will, as Poor Richard says; and Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting.
Page 111 - This however was afterwards of use to me, the impression continuing on my mind; so that often, when I was tempted to buy some unnecessary thing, I said to myself, Don't give too much for the whistle ; and I saved my money.
Page 81 - ... as Poor Richard says." They joined in desiring him to speak his mind, and gathering round him, he proceeded as follows; "Friends," says he, and neighbours, "the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the Government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes...
Page 82 - He that hath a Trade hath an Estate, and He that hath a Calling hath an Office of Profit and Honor; but then the Trade must be worked at, and the Calling well followed, or neither the Estate, nor the Office, will enable us to pay our Taxes.— If we are industrious we shall never starve; for, as Poor Richard says, At the working Man's House Hunger looks in, but dares not enter.
Page 84 - Three removes are as bad as a fire ; and again, 'Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee ;' and again, ' If you would have your business done, go ; if not, send;' and again, " 'He that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.
Page 95 - ... the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality ; that is, 45 waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
Page 86 - You call them goods; but if you do not take care they will prove evils to some of you. You expect they will be sold cheap, and perhaps they may for less than they cost; but if you have no occasion for them they must be dear to you. Remember what Poor Richard says: Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries.
Page 85 - If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of getting. The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her outgoes are greater than her incomes.
Page 82 - If Time be of all Things the most precious, wasting Time must be, as Poor Richard says, the greatest Prodigality; since, as he elsewhere tells us, Lost Time is never found again; and what we call Time enough, always proves little enough...
Page 86 - You may think, perhaps, that a little tea or a little punch now and then, diet a little more costly, clothes a little finer, and a little entertainment now and then, can be no great matter, but remember, " many a little makes a mickle." Beware of little expenses; "A small leak will sink a great ship...