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count: 15
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That which is not honest cannot be truly useful.
page: 10
tags:
honesty
usefulness
If you desire instruction and improvement from others, you should not at the same time express yourself fixed in your present opinions. Modest and sensible men, who do not love disputation, will leave you undisturbed in the possession of your errors.
page: 20
tags:
discourse
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.
page: 46
tags:
reason
(p) Take care not only to be in reality industrious and frugal, but to also avoid appearances to the contrary.
page: 91
tags:
appearance
perception
productivity
frugality
Virtues: 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. 4. Resolution: Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. 5. Frugality: Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; that is, waste nothing. 6. Industry: Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. 7. Sincerity: Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly; and, if you speak, speak accordingly. 8. Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty. 9. Moderation: Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries, so much as you think they deserve. 10. Cleanliness: Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation. 11. Tranquility: Be not disturbed at trifles or at accidents common or unavoidable. 12. Chastity: . . . . 13. Humility: Imitate Jesus and Socrates.
page: 104
tags:
virtue
benjamin franklin
(p) The habit of prattling, punning, and jesting only makes one acceptable to trifling company. Observe silence. Learning is accomplished through listening, not speaking.
page: 105
tags:
learning
(p) Though one may never arrive at perfection, one's hand is mended by the endeavor.
page: 112
tags:
perfection
perfectionism
Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.
page: 114
tags:
action
In reality there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.
page: 116
tags:
pride
"He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another than he whom you yourself have obliged."
page: 129
tags:
kindness
That as we enjoy great advantage from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.
page: 151
tags:
service
Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
page: 167
tags:
happiness
"Look round the habitable world; how few know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!"
page: 172
tags:
self-awareness
...but common sense, aided by present danger, will sometimes be too strong for whimsical opinions.
page: 193
tags:
reevaluation
...if I were to vow at all it should be to build a light-house.
page: 220
tags:
service