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Silver Lining Inspirations
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"There is surely a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off." Proverbs 23:18 (NIV)
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whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable-if anything is excellent or praiseworthy-think about such things.
(Philippians 4: 8)
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TEMPERANCE Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation
SILENCE Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself,
Avoid trifling conversation
ORDER Let all your things have their places;
Let each part of your business have its time
RESOLUTION Resolve to perform what you ought;
Perform without fail what you resolve
FRUGALITY Make no expense but to do good to others
Or yourself, that is, waste nothing.
INDUSTRY Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; Cut off all unnecessary actions
SINCERITY Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly,
And, if you speak, speak accordingly.
JUSTICE Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits That are your duty.
MODERATION Avoid extremes, forbear resenting injuries so much
As you think they deserve.
CLEANLINESS Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation.
TRANQUILITY Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents
Common or unavoidable.
CHASTITY Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or
Another’s peace or reputation.
HUMILITY Imitate Jesus and Socrates.
--Benjamin Franklin’s habitudes
From The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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