Patience is a most necessary quality for business many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
Patience is a most necessary quality for business many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
Real friendship is a slow grower, and never thrives unless engrafted upon a stock of known and reciprocal merit.
Firmness of purpose is one of the best instruments of success.
He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.
Men have various subjects in which they may excel, or at least would be thought to excel, and though they love to hear justice done to them where they know they excel, yet they are most and best flattered upon those points where they wish to excel and yet are doubtful whether they do or not.
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.
Ridicule is the best test of truth.
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.
Style is the dress of thoughts ... if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.
Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility strength alone will not do.
Dispatch is the soul of business.
Those whom you can make like themselves better will, I promise you, like you very well.
Be your character what it will, it will be known And nobody will take it upon your word.
The dews of the evening most carefully shun, Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.
There is hardly any place or any company where you may not gain knowledge, if you please almost everybody knows someone thing, and is glad to talk about that one thing.
I assisted at the birth of that most significant word 'flirtation,' which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world.
Idleness is the holiday of fools.
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres, and infallibly prevails at last.
I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow, who used to say, 'Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves.' of W. Lowndes, Secretary of the Treasury in the reigns of King William, Queen Anne, and King George the Third.
An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions. He is neither hot nor timid.
Unlike my subject now shall be my song It shall be witty, and it shant be long.
A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.
Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value.
Let the great book of the world be your principle study.
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.
There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.
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.
The vulgar only laugh, but never smile whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh.
Style is the dress of thoughts.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories