The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing once but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.
There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing at once but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.
When one is learning one should not think of play and when one is at play one should not think of learning.
If you would convince others seem open to conviction yourself.
You must look into people as well as at them.
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Patience is a most necessary quality for business many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary br...
Advice is seldom welcome and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
Know the true value of time snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
The less one has to do the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns one procrastinates one can do it when one will and therefore one seldom does it at all whereas those who have a great deal...
Idleness is the holiday of fools.
Pocket all your knowledge with your watch and never pull it out in company unless desired.
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
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