autobiography written 1771 1790 published 1868 quotes
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If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life ...than in giving him a thousand guineas. This sum may be soon spent, the regret only remaining of having foolishly consumed it; but in the other case, he escapes the frequent vexation of waiting for barbers, and of their sometimes dirty fingers, offensive breaths, and dull razors.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if h...e first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interes...ted in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have over those who are stationary, as the latter can not well improve their delivery of a sermon by so many rehearsals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Like a man traveling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as tho...se behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, though in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »