Selections from Autobiography, Poor Richard's Almanac, Advice to a Young Tradesman, The Whistle, Necessary Hints to Those that Would be Rich, Motion for Prayers, Selected Letters

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Doubleday & McClure Company, 1902 - 178 trang
 

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Trang 91 - light and life, thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself ! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss !" The precept of Order requiring that every part of my business
Trang 138 - if not, send I and •again, He that by the plough would thrive ; Himself must either hold or drive. And again, The Eye of the master will do more work than both his Hands ; and again, Want of Care does us more damage than Want of Knowledge ; and again, Not to oversee workmen, is to leave them your purse
Trang 162 - That henceforth prayers, imploring the assistance of Heaven and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business ; and that one or more of the clergy of this city be requested to officiate in that service. [Note by Dr. Franklin.]—" The Convention, except three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary
Trang 137 - Leisure is time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent man will obtain ; but the lazy man never. So that, as Poor RICHARD says, A life of leisure, and a life of laziness are two tilings. Do you imagine that Sloth will afford you more comfort than Labour
Trang 143 - for these superfluities? We are offered, by the terms of this Vendue, Six Months' Credit; and that, perhaps, has induced some of us to attend it, because we cannot spare the ready money, and hope now tobe fine without it. But, ah, think what you do, when you run in debt ? You give to another,
Trang 143 - is suffered ! It cannot promote health or ease pain ! It makes no increase of merit in> the person ! It creates envy ! It hastens misfortune ! What is a butterfly ? At best He's but a caterpillar drest! The gaudy fop's his picture just. as Poor RICHARD says. But what madness must it be. to run
Trang 50 - eat you." So I din'd upon cod very heartily, and continued to eat with other people, returning only now and then occasionally to a vegetable diet. -So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable .creature, since it enables one to find or make ^.a reason for every thing one has a mind to do. Keimer and
Trang 153 - do, and with them everything. He that gets all he can honestly, and saves all he gets (necessary expenses excepted), will certainly become rich, if that Being who governs the world, to whom all should look for a blessing on their honest endeavours, doth not, in his wise providence, otherwise determine. AN OLD TRADESMAN.
Trang 89 - spots. Proceeding thus to the last, I could go thro' a course complete in thirteen weeks, and four courses in a year. And like him who, having a garden to weed, does not attempt to eradicate all the bad herbs at once, which would exceed his reach and his strength, but works
Trang 167 - Mr. Strahan. Philadelphia, July 5, 1775* You are a member of Parliament, and one of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. You have begun to burn our towns and murder our people. Look upon your hands ! they are stained with the blood of your relations 1 You and I were long friends : you are now my enemy

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