 | Benjamin Franklin - 1906 - 1056 Seiten
...of giving instruction, and upon this he said to me, " You are young, and have the world before you; STOOP as you go through it, and you will miss many hard thumps." This jvivice, thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me; and I often think of it, when I... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1908 - 40 Seiten
...scarlets and velvets put out the kitchen fire. rwvJ m You are young, and have the world before you; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard thumps. This book should be returne the Library on or before the last stamped below. A fine of five cents a day... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1909 - 280 Seiten
...of giving instruction, and upon this he said to me : " You are young and have the world before you ; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many...upon people by their carrying their heads too high. Yours with esteem, B. XII TO THE REV. DH. LATHROP, BOSTON PHILADELPHIA, 31st May, 1788. REVEREND SIE:... | |
 | Herbert Greenhough Smith - 1909 - 1032 Seiten
...LIPTON. ONE OK THE CARTOON'S WHICH IIK1.PBU TO BUILD THE GRKAT Lll'TON BUSINLSS. go through the world. Stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard thumps.' " I have never failed to be impressed by this lesson of humility. Punctuality, said to be the soul... | |
 | Joseph Charles Sindelar - 1914 - 264 Seiten
...occasion of giving instruction; and, upon this, he said, 'You are young, and have the world before you. Stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many...mortified, and misfortunes brought upon people by carrying their heads too high.'' Before honor is humility. Birthday: Thomas Bailey Aldrich, an American... | |
 | Emma Lilian Dana - 1915 - 234 Seiten
...he hit his head against a beam. "Stoop," said Mather. "You are young and have the world before you. Stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard thumps." 37 His warm and generous faith in men and women, like his good humor, he never lost. The first of democrats,... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1916 - 760 Seiten
...of giving instruction, and upon this he said to me: " You are young, and have the world before you; STOOP as you go through it, and you will miss many...upon people by their carrying their heads too high. I long much to see again my native place, and to lay my bones there. I left it in 1723; I visited it... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1916 - 798 Seiten
...of giving instruction, and upon this he said to me: " You are young, and have the world before you; STOOP as you go through it, and you will miss many...misfortunes brought upon people by their carrying then- heads too high. I long much to see again my native place, and to lay my bones there. I left it... | |
 | Arthur Lee - 1917 - 340 Seiten
...reading your letters, and I regret your long silence. 6. You are young, and have the world before you; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard thumps. 7. I meant to be at Ethan Crawford's to-night; but a pedestrian lingers along such a road as this.... | |
 | 1918 - 708 Seiten
...of giving instruction, and upon this he said to me, "You are young, and have the world before you ; stoop as you go through it and you will miss many...pride mortified and misfortunes brought upon people by carrying i '•.•!!• heads too high. — BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, letter to Samuel Mather, Passy, May... | |
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This advice, thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me; and I often think of it, when I see pride mortified, and misfortunes brought upon people by their carrying their heads too high. 
