Gaining the Round Above: A Guide to Personal EfficiencyE.P. Dutton, 1918 - 103 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 72 - In short, 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, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
Seite 58 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend ; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all, — To thine...
Seite 26 - The brave man is not he who feels no fear, . For that were stupid and irrational, But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
Seite 10 - Sow an act, and you reap a Habit ; Sow a habit, and you reap a Character; Sow a character, and you reap a Destiny.
Seite 20 - If industry is no more than habit, 'tis at least an excellent one. " If you ask me, which is the real hereditary sin of human nature, do you imagine I shall answer pride, or luxury, or ambition, or egotism ? No ; I shall say — indolence. Who conquers indolence, will conquer all the rest.
Seite 49 - When old Zachariah Fox, the great merchant of Liverpool, was asked by what means he contrived to realize so large a fortune as he possessed, his reply was, " Friend, by one article alone, in which thon mayest deal too if thou pleasest — civility.
Seite 47 - ... agreeable in conversation and common life. Great talents are above the generality of the world, who neither possess them themselves, nor judge of them rightly in others ; but all people are judges of the smaller talents, such as civility, affability, and an obliging, agreeable address and manner, because they feel the effects of them, as making society easy and pleasing.
Seite 34 - Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Seite 15 - The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary ; second, what is useful ; and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.
Seite 12 - Keep good company, or none. Never be idle; if your hands cannot be usefully employed, attend to the cultivation of your mind. Always speak the truth. Make few promises. Live up to your engagements. Keep your own secrets, if you have any.