Lord Chesterfield
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Biography
Earl of Chesterfield, in the County of Derby, was a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1628 for Philip Stanhope, 1st Baron Stanhope.
"In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool."
"Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow."
"Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination."
"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."
"Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet."
"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."
"Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked."
"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."
"Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings."
"Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others."
"Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request."
"The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation."
"Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded."
"In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool."
"Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings."
"Advice is seldom welcome and those who want it the most always like it the least."
"When a man is once in fashion all he does is right."
"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."
"We are in truth more than a half of what we are by imitation."