Essays Written in the Intervals of Business: To which is Added An Essay on Organization in Daily LifeRoberts brothers, 1871 - 245 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 227 - My dooty tords my naben, to love him as thyself, and to do to all men as I wed thou shall do and to me, to love, onner, and suke my farther and mother, to onner and to bay the Queen, and all that are pet in a forty under her, to smit myself to all my gooness, teaches, sportial pastures and marsters...
Σελίδα 109 - I venture to prophesy that within six months you will come to consult me whether or not — for there is a great deal to be said on both sides of the question — you can make up your mind to sacrifice your own wishes and marry Walter Lester.
Σελίδα 248 - Glasgow Herald. A Cheap Edition of MEET FOR HEAVEN, In crown 8vo, cloth limp, price Is. 6d., is also published. Works by the Author of ' Heaven our Home
Σελίδα 74 - A man of business should take care to consult occasionally with persons of a nature quite different from his own. To very few are given all the qualities requisite to form a good man of business. Thus a man may have the sternness and the fixedness of purpose so necessary in the conduct of affairs, yet these qualities prevent him, perhaps, from entering into the characters of those about him. He is likely to want tact. He will be unprepared for the extent of versatility and vacillation in other men....
Σελίδα 65 - ... any, the moment that he finds them to be erroneous. Much depends upon the temperament of a man of business. It should be hopeful, that it may bear him up against the faintheartedness, the folly, the falsehood, and the numberless discouragements which even a prosperous man will have to endure. It should also be calm ; for else he may be driven wild by any great pressure of business, and lose his time, and his head, in rushing from one unfinished thing to begin something else. Now this wishedfor...
Σελίδα 21 - Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist ; but, by ascending a little, you may often look over it altogether. So it is with our moral improvement : we wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit, which would have no hold upon us if we ascended into a higher moral atmosphere.
Σελίδα 62 - The wisdom touching Negotiation or Business hath not been hitherto collected into writing, to the great derogation of learning, and the professors of learning. For from this root springeth chiefly that note or opinion, which by iw is expressed in adage to this efl'eot, "that there is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
Σελίδα 68 - Our student is not intended to become a learned man, but a man of business ; not a " full man," but a " ready man." He must be taught to arrange and express what he knows. For this purpose let him employ himself in making digests, arranging and classifying materials, writing narratives, and in deciding upon conflicting evidence. All these exercises require method. He must expect that his early attempts will be clumsy : he begins, perhaps, by dividing his subject in any way that occurs to him, with...
Σελίδα 59 - Few persons have tact enough to perceive when to be silent, and when to offer you counsel or condolence. ,.. You should be careful not to intrust another unnecessarily with a secret which it may be a hard matter for him to keep, and which may expose him to somebody's displeasure, when it is hereafter discovered that he was the object of your confidence. Your desire for aid, or for sympathy, is not to be indulged by dragging other people into your misfortunes. There is as much responsibility in imparting...
Σελίδα 24 - Prayer is a constant source of invigoration to self-discipline : not the thoughtless praying, which is a thing of custom ; but that which is sincere, intense, watchful. Let a man ask himself whether he really would have the thing he prays for: let him think, while he is praying for a spirit of forgiveness, whether even at that moment he is disposed to give up the luxury of anger. If not, what a horrible mockery it is ! To think that a man can find nothing better to do, in the presence of his Creator,...