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... pounds will take care of themselves . " La Fitte , the cele- brated French banker , leaving the house to which he had ap- plied for a clerkship , was not too proud or careless to pick up a pin . This simple pin laid the foundation of ...
... pounds will take care of themselves . " La Fitte , the cele- brated French banker , leaving the house to which he had ap- plied for a clerkship , was not too proud or careless to pick up a pin . This simple pin laid the foundation of ...
الصفحة 11
... pound was lost where a penny was gained ; that present successes are out- weighed , a thousand - fold , by the pains and penalties which result from loss of confidence and loss of character . It can- not be too strongly impressed upon ...
... pound was lost where a penny was gained ; that present successes are out- weighed , a thousand - fold , by the pains and penalties which result from loss of confidence and loss of character . It can- not be too strongly impressed upon ...
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... pounds , " and that , " if we take care of our pence our pounds will take care of themselves , " are true sayings . There are some who have desired to save a portion annually from their incomes , but have delayed doing so from one year ...
... pounds , " and that , " if we take care of our pence our pounds will take care of themselves , " are true sayings . There are some who have desired to save a portion annually from their incomes , but have delayed doing so from one year ...
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... pounds will take care of them- selves . " Be abstemious . " Who dainties love , shall beggars prove . " Rise Early . " The sleeping fox catches no poultry . " " Plough deep while sluggards sleep , and you will have corn to sell and keep ...
... pounds will take care of them- selves . " Be abstemious . " Who dainties love , shall beggars prove . " Rise Early . " The sleeping fox catches no poultry . " " Plough deep while sluggards sleep , and you will have corn to sell and keep ...
الصفحة 27
... pounds of birdlime upon your office stool , and sit down on it ; get a chain round your leg , and tie yourself to your counter like a pair of shop scissors ; nail yourself up against the wall of your place of business , like a weasel on ...
... pounds of birdlime upon your office stool , and sit down on it ; get a chain round your leg , and tie yourself to your counter like a pair of shop scissors ; nail yourself up against the wall of your place of business , like a weasel on ...
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الصفحة 111 - But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade. Beware Of entrance to a quarrel : but, being in, Bear it that the opposer may beware of thee. Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice : Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
الصفحة 111 - LAERTES' head. And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel ; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
الصفحة 136 - If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
الصفحة 113 - The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between men, between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy — invincible determination ; a purpose once fixed and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that can be done in this world, and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged creature a man without it.
الصفحة 114 - Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.
الصفحة 72 - ... new powers shall appear; that a man is the word made flesh, born to shed healing to the nations; that he should be ashamed of our compassion, and that the moment he acts from himself, tossing the laws, the books, idolatries and customs out of the window, we pity him no more but thank and revere...
الصفحة 165 - Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out ; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
الصفحة 145 - 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.
الصفحة 72 - A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession, 1 for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.
الصفحة 144 - Remember this saying, The good paymaster is lord of another man's purse. He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the time he promises, may at any time, and on any occasion, raise all the money his friends can spare. This is sometimes of great use.