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... mean time , we should draw all the good we can from this world . In my opinion , we might all draw more good from it than we do , and suffer less evil , if we would take care not to give too much for whistles . For to me it seems that ...
... mean time , we should draw all the good we can from this world . In my opinion , we might all draw more good from it than we do , and suffer less evil , if we would take care not to give too much for whistles . For to me it seems that ...
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... means , if possible , I should devote him to the Church . It will be a heavy tax upon you , of course , with so large a family on your hands , but your reward will come when you are old and gray - headed . Would that I were in circum ...
... means , if possible , I should devote him to the Church . It will be a heavy tax upon you , of course , with so large a family on your hands , but your reward will come when you are old and gray - headed . Would that I were in circum ...
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... mean to believe that Providence has some thing better in store for him and us . " 66 " I was never so reluctant to adopt a conclusion as I have been to take Benjamin out of school , " con- tinued Mr. Franklin . ' Yet , there has been ...
... mean to believe that Providence has some thing better in store for him and us . " 66 " I was never so reluctant to adopt a conclusion as I have been to take Benjamin out of school , " con- tinued Mr. Franklin . ' Yet , there has been ...
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... means that you should help your father , I have no doubt of that ; and you must do the best for him that you can . ” " That is what I intend to do , however much I dislike the business . I want to help father all I can ; he has a hard ...
... means that you should help your father , I have no doubt of that ; and you must do the best for him that you can . ” " That is what I intend to do , however much I dislike the business . I want to help father all I can ; he has a hard ...
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... mean to say that it is so important for the young to form industrious . habits , that they better work for nothing than to be idle . If they are idle when they are young , they will be so when they become men , and idleness will final ...
... mean to say that it is so important for the young to form industrious . habits , that they better work for nothing than to be idle . If they are idle when they are young , they will be so when they become men , and idleness will final ...
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Page 452 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Page 456 - I have lived, Sir, a long time ; and, the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that GOD govern! in the affairs of men.
Page 201 - I conceive or apprehend a thing to be so and so ; it appears to me, or I should think it so or so, for such and such reasons; or / imagine it to be so; or it is so, if I am not mistaken. This habit, I believe, has been of great advantage to me when I have had occasion to inculcate my opinions, and persuade men into measures that I have been from time to time engaged in promoting...
Page 154 - 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.
Page 457 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Page 197 - Tragedy, and contained an account of the drowning of Captain Worthilake, with his two daughters : the other was a sailor's song, on the taking of Teach (or Blackbeard) the pirate.
Page 80 - Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet; — and bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: — for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again; — he was lost, and is found.
Page 76 - The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but, if he sees you at a billiard -table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day ; demands it, before he can receive it, in a lump.
Page 456 - In the Beginning of the Contest with Britain, when we were sensible of Danger, we had daily Prayers in this Room for the Divine Protection. Our Prayers, Sir, were heard ; — and they were graciously answered.
Page 200 - While I was intent on improving my language, I met with an English grammar (I think it was Greenwood's), at the end of which there were two little sketches of the arts of rhetoric and logic, the latter finishing with a specimen of a dispute in the Socratic method; and soon after I procured Xenophon's Memorable Things of Socrates, wherein there are many instances of the same method.