Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. Follow nature and not fashion: weigh the present enjoyment of your pleasures against the necessary consequences of them, and then let your own common sense determine your choice.
Philip Dormer StanhopeBut a young man should be ambitious to shine, and excel; alert, active, and indefatigable in the means of doing it.
Philip Dormer StanhopeThere is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt; and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
Philip Dormer StanhopeIdleness is only the refuge of weak
minds, and the holiday of fools.
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Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.
Philip Dormer StanhopeThere is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in they year, if you will do two things at a time.
Philip Dormer StanhopeAdvice is seldom welcome and those who need it the most like it the least.
Philip Dormer StanhopeHonest error is to be pitied not ridiculed.
Philip Dormer StanhopeIn seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
Philip Dormer StanhopeA weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
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