Lord Chesterfield Inspirational Quotes

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• If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

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  Inspirational, Teacher, Teaching

• If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?

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  Inspirational, Life, Growth

• Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

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  Inspirational, Heart, Men

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.290

• In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

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  Inspirational, Life, Wise

• A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

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  Inspirational, Men, People

• Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it.

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  Inspirational, Positive, Time

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.130

• Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.

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  Inspirational, Character, Known

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.224

• The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.533

• Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  "Manners and speech or maxims extracted from Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1884.

• Always make the best of the best, and never make bad worse.

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  Inspirational, Children, Best Of The Best

• He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.

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  Inspirational, Character, Splendid

  "Character of Bolingbroke"; reported in "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th ed. (1919),

• Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

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  Inspirational, Knowledge, People

  Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.250, Wildside Press LLC

• As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Inspirational, Funny, Fathers Day

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.239, Oxford University Press

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