 | Random readings - 1854 - 204 pages
...Silence.—Speak not but what might benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. Order.—Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. Resolution.—Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. Frugality.—Make... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1855 - 522 pages
...2. SILENCE. — Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3. ORDER. — Let all your things have their places ; let each part of your business have its time. 4. RESOLUTION. — Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. 5. FRUGALITY.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...virtues, with their precepts, were : 1. TEMPERANCE. — Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. — Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3. ORDER. — Let all things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4. RESOLUTION.... | |
 | 1858 - 348 pages
...gave to its meaning. These were : 1. TEMPERANCE. — Eat not to dullness ; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. — Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3. ORDER. — Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.... | |
 | William Chambers - Conduct of life - 1858 - 378 pages
...elevation. [The precept, drink nothing at all which is intoxicating, might have been preferable.] 2. SILENCE. — Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself: avoid trifling conversation. 3. ORDBB. — Let all your things have their places: let each part of your business have its time.... | |
 | Robert Kemp PHILP - 1859 - 182 pages
...with their precepts, were : — 1. Temperance. — Eat not to dulness : drink not to elevation. 2. Silence. —Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself: avoid trifling conversation. 3. Order. — Let all things have their places : let each part of your business have its time. 4. Resolution.... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literature - 1860 - 538 pages
...which he paid constant and earnest attention, and thereby made himself a better and happier man : — Temperance. — Eat not to fulness; drink not to elevation....benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. Resolution. — Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you rrtolve. Frugality.... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Boston (Mass.) - 1860 - 358 pages
...proceeded to read the following : 1. "TEMPERANCE. — Eat not to dulness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. — Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3. ORDER. — Let all your things have their places ; let each part of your business have its time.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thayer - 1860 - 342 pages
...2. Silence. — Speak not but what maybenefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. " 3. Order. — Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. " 4. Resolution. — Resolve to perform what you ought ; perform without fail what you resolve. " 5.... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Apprentices - 1861 - 304 pages
...following were the virtues : — " 1. Temperance. — Eat not to dulness ; drink not to elevation. " 2. Silence. — Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. " 3. Order. — Let all your things have their places ; let each part of your business have its time.... | |
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Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3 ORDER Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4 RESOLUTION Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you... 
