Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and ConductTicknor and Fields, 1861 - 430 pages |
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accustomed acquired action afterwards amidst amongst application artist became become British Buxton called career CHAP character courage cultivated Daylesford determined difficulties diligent duty eminent employed enabled energetic energy engaged England English engraving father Flaxman fortune genius Granville Sharp habit hand Hanway highest honest honor Hugh Miller humble indefatigable India industry JAMES SHARPLES James Somerset John Jonas Hanway Joseph Hume knowledge labor learned leisure living London Lord Lord Chancellor LORD ELDON Lord Mansfield Lord Tenterden mainly man's master means mechanical ment mind moral negro never noble observed painting patient peerages perseverance person Phipps poor possessed practical profession proved purpose pursuit reading remarkable resolution Richard Arkwright Richard Foley Samuel Drew says self-culture Sharp shilling ship slave society spirit success things thought tion took trade whilst William young youth
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Page 328 - Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Page 21 - ... studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Page 398 - And to this habit (after my character of integrity) I think it principally owing that I had early so much weight with my fellow-citizens when I proposed new institutions, or alterations in the old, and so much influence in public councils when I became a member; for I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to much hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct in language: and yet I generally carried my points.
Page 325 - Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.
Page 349 - We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do ; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Page 339 - And the great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than their furnace blast, is all in very deed for this, — that we manufacture everything there except men...
Page 296 - Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves.
Page 296 - For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty : and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Page 413 - Lord, who shall abide in Thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in Thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, And speaketh the truth in his heart.
Page 276 - Who, if he rise to station of command, Rises by open means; and there will stand On honourable terms, or else retire, And in himself possess his own desire: Who comprehends his trust, and to the same, Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim...