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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
British Statesman
Born: Sep 22, 1694
Died: Mar 24, 1773
Great Man People Time Will You
Related authors: Arthur Balfour Benjamin Disraeli Cecil Rhodes Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax John Lubbock John Morley Robert Walpole Winston Churchill
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Today Time You Procrastination Tomorrow Value Laziness Enjoy Every Seize Never Put True Know Idleness Till True Value Off Moment
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Sad Health Good Soul Sadness Humor Poison
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Sooner Insult Than Forgotten Much Injury
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Own Our Faults Draws Veil Between Self-Love Us Thick
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Knowledge Learning World Men Reading Books Facets More Only Various Studying Reading Books Them Acquired Much Necessary
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Wisdom Art Wise Fool Thou Thou Art Seeking Attained Imagining
If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Good Man Together Wife Will Nights Intimacy Degenerate Lay Absolutely Soon Days Well Contempt Mistress Pass His Infallibly Familiarity Disgust Aside Breeding Coarse Good Breeding Productive Who Ever
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
You Will Possible Find Attainable Most Persevere Persist Things
Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
You Learning People Strike Out Wear Pocket Seem More Never Merely Wiser Like Learned Private Nor Than Your Show Watch Pull
Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Fitness Health Perseverance Simple All Things Temperance Dress Rising Variations Retiring Hours Exercise Climate Branches Regimen Regularity Things Necessary Adaptation
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
You Angle Only Bait Sure Praise Modesty
Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Light Mask First Virtue Sight Deformed Would Seduce Wear Some True Shocks Did Vice Us Ever Hardly
Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Best You Inferiority Enjoy Friends Your
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Love Good Great Man Quality People Fear Few Everybody Aim Unless All People Must Admires Share Wit Most Himself Another Shining Endure Themselves
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Love You Extremely Slight Visible Those Distrust Without Very Any Love You Acquaintance Reason Who
Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
You Dark Will Side Both Clear Hear
Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Big Too Hurry About He Him Whoever Shows Thing
Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Man People Degree Every Generally He Becomes Converse Certain Certain Degree Every Man
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Love You People Fear Pride Ambition Side Once Pity Against Engage Your Reason Need
You must look into people as well as at them. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
You People Must Look Well Them
Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Mind Understanding Dress Implies Affectation Whatsoever Any Flaw
Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Error Pitied Ridiculed Honest
When a person is in fashion, all they do is right. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Fashion Person Right
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Knowledge People See Give More More People Weigh Weight Accomplishments Than May Many Luster
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Knowledge World Only Closet Acquired
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Laughter Manners Characteristic Folly Frequent Loud Ill
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