 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. 4. RESOLUTION....  American Literature - Page 102edited by - 1926 - 604 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - American prose literature - 1916 - 760 pages
...its meaning. These names of virtues, with their precepts, were; 1. TEMPERANCE.— Eat not to dulness: drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. — Speak not...others or yourself: ie waste nothing. 6. INDUSTRY. — Lose no time: be always employed in something useful: cut off all unnecessary actions. 7. SINCERITY.—... | |
 | Asa Don Dickinson - Biography - 1916 - 230 pages
...to its meaning. These names of virtues, with their precepts, were: 1. TEMPERANCE Eat not to dulness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE Speak not but what...others or yourself; ie, waste nothing. 6. INDUSTRY Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. 7. SINCERITY... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1916 - 696 pages
...to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or your eelf; avoid trifling conversation. 3. ORDER. Let all your...FRUGALITY. Make no expense but to do good to others 01 yourself; i. e., waste nothing. 6. INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful;... | |
 | Enoch Burton Gowin - Business - 1919 - 518 pages
...good ones acquired and established. . . . For this purpose I therefore contrived the following method. I included under thirteen names of virtues all that...others or yourself; ie, waste nothing. "6. Industry. Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. "7. Sincerity.... | |
 | Enoch Burton Gowin - Business - 1919 - 552 pages
...expressed the extent I gave to its meaning. "These names of virtues, with their precepts, were : "1. Temperance. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation....others or yourself; ie, waste nothing. "6. Industry. Lose no time ; be always employed in something useful ; cut off all unnecessary actions. "7. Sincerity.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1921 - 280 pages
...fully expressed the extent I gave to its meaning. The names of virtues, with their precepts, were : 1. TEMPERANCE. — Eat not to dullness; drink not to...places ; let each part of your business have its time. KESOLUTION. — Eesolve to perform what you ought ; perwithout fail what you resolve. 5. FRUGALITY.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 1923 - 328 pages
...fully express'd the extent I gave to its meaning. These names of virtues, with their precepts, were: 1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation....others or yourself; ie, waste nothing. 6. INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful ; cut off all unnecessary actions. 7. SINCERITY.... | |
 | David Herbert Lawrence - American literature - 1923 - 286 pages
...of virtues, which he trotted inside like a grey nag in a paddock. 1 TEMPERANCE Eat not to fulness; drink not to elevation. 2 SILENCE Speak not but what...others or yourself — ie, waste nothing. 6 INDUSTRY Lose no time, be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary action. 7 SINCERITY Use... | |
 | David Herbert Lawrence - American literature - 1923 - 282 pages
...of virtues, which he trotted inside like a grey nag in a paddock. 1 TEMPERANCE Eat not to fulness; drink not to elevation. 2 SILENCE Speak not but what...Resolve to perform what you ought ; perform without fall what you resolve. 5 FRUGALITY Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself — ie, waste... | |
 | James Madison Stifler - Statesmen - 1925 - 176 pages
...acquired to a high degree many of these thirteen selected virtues. The thirteen that he selected were : 1. Temperance — Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation....others or yourself; ie waste nothing. 6. Industry — Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. 7. Sincerity... | |
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