The Beauties of Chesterfield Author:Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Alfred Howard General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1828 Original Publisher: C. Ewer Subjects: Conduct of life Literary Collections / Essays Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Self-Help / General Self-Help / Personal Growth / General Notes: This is a black a... more »nd white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: HURRY. You will say, it may be, that when you write so very ill, it is because you are in a hurry: to which I answer, Why are you ever in a hurry ? A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry, because he knows, that whatever he does in a hurry, he must necessarily do very ill. He may be in haste to despatch an affair, but he will take care not to let that haste hinder his doing it well. Little minds are in a hurry, when the object proves (as it commonly does) too big for them; they run, they stare, they puzzle, confound, and perplex themselves; they want to do every thing at once, and never do it at all. But a man of sense takes the time, necessary for doing the thing he is about, well; and his haste to despatch a business only appears by the continuity of his application to it: he pursues it with a cool steadiness, and finishes it before he begins any other. IMAGINARY IMPOSSIBILITIES. I am very sure, at least I hope, that yon will never make use of a silly expression, which is the favourite expression, and the absurd excuse, of all fools and blockheads, -- / cannot do such a thing; a thing by no means either morally or physically impossible. I cannot attend long together to the same thing, says one fool: that is, he is such a fool that ho will not. I remember a very awkward fellow, who did not know what to do with his sword, and who always took ...« less