 | Robert Kemp Philp - 430 pages
...to their happiness and self-respect. You will find the following instructions invaluable. Never be idle. If your hands cannot be usefully employed, attend to the cultivation ef your mine!. Keep good company, or none. Make few promises. Live up to all your engagements. Keep... | |
 | Young people - 1852 - 1020 pages
...none. Never be idle. If your hands cannot be usefully employed, THE JUVENILE INSTRUCTOR AND COMPANION. attend to the cultivation of your mind. Always speak...engagements. Keep your own secrets, if you have any. When yon speak to a person, look him in the face. Good company and good conversation are the very sinews... | |
 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - Commerce - 1852 - 858 pages
...800 British ships in seven months. MAXIMS FOR YOUN8 MERCHANTS. Keep good company or none. Never be idle. If your hands cannot be usefully employed, attend...promises. Live up to your engagements. Keep your own secrete, if you have any. When you speak to a person, look him in the face. Good company and good conversation... | |
 | Commerce - 1852 - 794 pages
...300 British ships in seven mouths. MAXIMS FOR YOIWG MERCHANTS. Keep good company or none. Never be idle. If your hands cannot be usefully employed, attend...promises. Live up to your engagements. Keep your own secret- , if you have any. When you speak to a person, look him in the face. Good company and good... | |
 | Agriculture - 1852 - 486 pages
...contain about 2 J Ibs-" I am sir. your ob't eerv't, WH BIIEWBB. Ithaca, NY, May 11, 1862. Never be idle. If your hands cannot be usefully employed, attend to the cultivation of your mind. Horticultural Item«. STEAHKO F HUIT. — Nothing, scarcely, tends more to improve the substantial... | |
 | Charles Simmons - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1852 - 564 pages
...practitioners. By doing nothing, men learn to do ill. Indolence is the bane of enjoyment. Never be idle. If your hands cannot be usefully employed, attend to the cultivation of your mind. Ed. It is idleness in God's account, to do nothing with a single eye to his glory. 440. IDOLS, IDOLATRY.... | |
 | Farm buildings - 1852 - 464 pages
...accustoms himself to buy superfluities, may, ere long, be obliged to sell his necessaries. . . . NEVEE be idle. If your hands cannot be usefully employed, attend to the cultivation of your mind. . . . GOOD company and good conversation are the very sinews of virtue. . . . STEONG passions work... | |
 | 1852 - 820 pages
...look upon him without thinking about the faith so beautifully exhibited by bis dying mother. NEVER l>e idle. If your hands cannot be usefully employed, attend to the cultivation of your mind. BOYS IN CITIES AND COUNTRY. WE frequently have been asked by parents from the country abouttlu propriety... | |
 | Henry Augustus Boardman - Business ethics - 1853 - 432 pages
...found in his pocket-book, of which the following is a copy : — Keep good company or none. Never be idle. If your hands cannot be usefully employed, attend...engagements. Keep your own secrets, if you have any. AVhen you speak to a person, look him in the face. Good company and good conversation are the very... | |
 | Septimus Sears - 1854 - 778 pages
...be a lasting blessing to your souls. — EDITOR.] MAXIMS FOR YOUNG MEN. KEEP good company, or none. If your hands cannot be usefully employed, attend...have any. When you speak to a person, look him in face. Good company and good conversation are very sinews of virtue. Good character is above all things... | |
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KEEP good company or none. Never be idle. If your hands cannot be usefully employed, attend to the cultivation of your mind. Always speak the truth. Make few promises. Live up to your engagements. 
