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[Quote No.2249] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
" - Lord Chesterfield
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[Quote No.2253] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
" - Lord Chesterfield
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[Quote No.2255] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
" - Lord Chesterfield
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[Quote No.2258] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.
" - Lord Chesterfield
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[Quote No.2260] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
" - Lord Chesterfield
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[Quote No.2271] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
" - Lord Chesterfield
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[Quote No.2273] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
" - Lord Chesterfield
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[Quote No.13762] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm." - Lord Chesterfield
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[Quote No.13822] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old." - Lord Chesterfield
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield
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[Quote No.15998] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The knowledge of the world is only acquired in the world..." - Lord Chesterfield
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (1694 - 1773) English courtier, orator and wit
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[Quote No.17815] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old." - Lord Chesterfield
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (1694 - 1773) English courtier, orator and wit
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[Quote No.17993] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"There are three classes of people in the world. The first learn from their own experience - these are wise; the second learn from the experience of others - these are the happy; the third neither learn from their own experience nor the experience of others - these are fools." - Lord Chesterfield
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (1694 - 1773) English courtier, orator and wit
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[Quote No.18420] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Prepare yourselves for the great world, as the athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners..." - Lord Chesterfield
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (1694 - 1773) English courtier, orator and wit
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[Quote No.20990] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The world is a country, which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it. The scholar, who in the dust of his closet talks or writes of the world, knows no more of it than that orator did of war, which endeavored to instruct Hannibal in it." - Lord Chesterfield
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (1694 - 1773) English courtier, orator and wit
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[Quote No.30664] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Buy good books, and read them." - Lord Chesterfield
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[Quote No.32772] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it [but previous traveller's maps can help]." - Lord Chesterfield
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[Quote No.32775] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet." - Lord Chesterfield
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[Quote No.33190] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"History is but a confused heap of facts." - Lord Chesterfield
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[Quote No.56859] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Be humble:] Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket, and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show you have one. If you are asked what o'clock it is, tell it, but do not proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman." - Lord Chesterfield
(1694-1773), statesman and writer.
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[Quote No.59482] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility..." - Lord Chesterfield
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[Quote No.62863] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them." - Lord Chesterfield
(1694-1773), statesman and writer.
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[Quote No.66949] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket, [humbly and without ostentation] and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show you have one. If you are asked what o'clock it is, tell it, but do not proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman." - Lord Chesterfield
(1694-1773), statesman and writer.
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[Quote No.71730] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the [Human] world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them." - Lord Chesterfield
(1694-1773), statesman and writer.
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[Quote No.2244] Need Area: Mind > Imagine
"Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
" - Lord Chesterfield
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[Quote No.37723] Need Area: Mind > Imagine
"Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable; however, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable." - Lord Chesterfield
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[Quote No.17424] Need Area: Mind > Plan
"It is an undoubted truth that the less one has to do the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will and, therefore, one seldom does it at all; whereas, those who have a great deal of business must buckle to it; and then they always find time enough to do it." - Lord Chesterfield
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (1694 - 1773) English courtier, orator and wit
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[Quote No.2254] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.
" - Lord Chesterfield
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[Quote No.2269] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
" - Lord Chesterfield
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[Quote No.2270] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"The more one works, the more willing one is to work.
" - Lord Chesterfield
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[Quote No.14573] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"The power of applying attention, steady and anticipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of a superior genius." - Lord Chesterfield
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (1694 - 1773) English courtier, orator and wit
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[Quote No.18664] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"It is an undoubted truth that the less one has to do the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and, therefore, one seldom does it all; whereas those who have a great deal of business, must (to use a vulgar expression) buckle to it; and then they always find time enough to do it in." - Lord Chesterfield
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (1694 - 1773) English courtier, orator and wit
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[Quote No.19427] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves." - Lord Chesterfield
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (1694 - 1773) English courtier, orator & wit
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[Quote No.34501] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world!!!" - Lord Chesterfield
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[Quote No.40875] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves." - Lord Chesterfield
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[Quote No.1613] Need Area: Mind > Persist
"Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
" - Lord Chesterfield
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[Quote No.2230] Need Area: Mind > Persist
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore" - Lord Chesterfield
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[Quote No.2262] Need Area: Mind > Persist
"Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
" - Lord Chesterfield
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[Quote No.16301] Need Area: Mind > Persist
"Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies." - Lord Chesterfield
(1694 - 1773), Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, English courtier, orator and wit.
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[Quote No.23197] Need Area: Mind > Persist
"Persist and persevere, and you will find most things, that are attainable, possible." - Lord Chesterfield
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[Quote No.69788] Need Area: Mind > General
"[Life-skills; common-sense, practical wisdom:] Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.
" - Lord Chesterfield
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[Quote No.2250] Need Area: Body > Health
"I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.
" - Lord Chesterfield
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[Quote No.2264] Need Area: Body > Health
"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.
" - Lord Chesterfield
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[Quote No.30729] Need Area: Body > Grooming
"The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, [but] at the same time he knows he must not neglect it." - Lord Chesterfield
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[Quote No.28464] Need Area: Work > Service
"I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive." - Lord Chesterfield
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[Quote No.2252] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"… engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side…
" - Lord Chesterfield
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[Quote No.2256] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"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.
" - Lord Chesterfield
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[Quote No.2257] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
" - Lord Chesterfield
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[Quote No.2261] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
" - Lord Chesterfield
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[Quote No.2313] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.[at least in the eyes of those around him or her]" - Lord Chesterfield
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[Quote No.20459] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"A man who cannot command his temper should not think of being a man of business." - Lord Chesterfield
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (1694 - 1773) English courtier, orator & wit
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