The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral, and Literary, with His Life |
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... master , and succeeded very well in his profession by employing gentle means only , and such as were calculated to encourage his scholars . Under him I soon acquired an excellent hand , but I failed in arithmetic , and made therein no ...
... master , and succeeded very well in his profession by employing gentle means only , and such as were calculated to encourage his scholars . Under him I soon acquired an excellent hand , but I failed in arithmetic , and made therein no ...
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... master of them . From this belief , I took some of the tales of the Spectator and turned them into verse ; and , after a time , when I had sufficiently forgotten them , I again converted them into prose . Sometimes , also , I mingled ...
... master of them . From this belief , I took some of the tales of the Spectator and turned them into verse ; and , after a time , when I had sufficiently forgotten them , I again converted them into prose . Sometimes , also , I mingled ...
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... master of the little geometry it contains , but I never proceeded far in this science . Nearly at the same time I read Locke on the Human Understanding , and the Art of Thinking by Messrs . Du Port Royal . While labouring to form and ...
... master of the little geometry it contains , but I never proceeded far in this science . Nearly at the same time I read Locke on the Human Understanding , and the Art of Thinking by Messrs . Du Port Royal . While labouring to form and ...
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... master , and treated me as an apprentice . He thought himself entitled to the same services from me as from any other person . On the contrary , I conceived that , in many instances , he was too rigorous , and that , on the part of a ...
... master , and treated me as an apprentice . He thought himself entitled to the same services from me as from any other person . On the contrary , I conceived that , in many instances , he was too rigorous , and that , on the part of a ...
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... master's secrets . The imprisonment of my brother kindled my re- sentment , notwithstanding our private quarrels . During its continuance the management of the pa- per was intrusted to me , and I was bold enough to insert some ...
... master's secrets . The imprisonment of my brother kindled my re- sentment , notwithstanding our private quarrels . During its continuance the management of the pa- per was intrusted to me , and I was bold enough to insert some ...
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Page 274 - ... for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost;" being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for the want of a little care about a horseshoe nail!
Page 156 - The Body Of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, (Like the cover of an old book, Its contents torn out, And stript of its lettering and gilding,) Lies here, food for worms. But the work shall not be lost, For it will, as he believed, appear once more, In a new and more elegant edition, Revised and corrected By THE AUTHOR.
Page 271 - Key is always bright, as Poor Richard says. But dost thou love Life, then do not squander Time, for that's the Stuff Life is made of, as Poor Richard says. — How much more than is necessary do we spend in Sleep! forgetting that The sleeping Fox catches no Poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the Grave, as Poor Richard says.
Page 273 - And again, Three removes are as bad as a fire ; and again, Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee ; and again, If you would have your business done, go ; if not, send. And again, — He that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.
Page 277 - Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, and supped with Infamy. And after all, of what Use is this Pride of Appearance, for which so much is risked, so much is suffered? It cannot promote Health, or ease Pain; it makes no Increase of Merit in the Person, it creates Envy, it hastens Misfortune.
Page 270 - Ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness, three times as much by our Pride, and four times as much by our Folly; and from these Taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an Abatement. However let us hearken to good Advice, and something may be done for us; God helps them that help themselves, as Poor Richard says, in his Almanack of 1733.
Page 276 - If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for, he that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing; and indeed so does he that lends to such people, when he goes to get it in again.
Page 274 - A fat Kitchen makes a lean Will, as Poor Richard says; and Many Estates are spent in the Getting, Since Women for Tea forsook Spinning and Knitting, And Men for Punch forsook Hewing and Splitting.
Page 280 - I had made of the sense of all ages and nations. However, I resolved to be the better for the echo of it, and though I had at first determined to buy stuff for a new coat, I went away resolved to wear my old one a little longer. Reader, if thou wilt do the same, thy profit will be as great as mine.
Page 271 - He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor'; but then the trade must be worked at, and the calling well followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes. If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, as Poor Richard says, 'At the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter.