There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.
More Quotes from Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield:
Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world.Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
Real merit of any kind cannot long be concealed it will be discovered, and nothing can depreciate it but a man exhibiting it himself. It may not always be rewarded as it ought but it will always be known.
Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
The dews of the evening most carefully shun, Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.
Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.
Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
Knowledge is comfortable and a necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, but if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.
Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who, by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved A coward.
Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
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