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Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Lord Chesterfield
Life, Motivational, Positive
"Lord Chesterfield's Advice to His Son, on Men and Manners: Or, A New System of Education". Book by Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield, 1815.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

Lord Chesterfield
Life, Standards, Wells
Letters to His Son, 10 Mar. 1746

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

Lord Chesterfield
Inspirational, Life, Growth

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

Lord Chesterfield
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

I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.

Lord Chesterfield
Life, Success, Good Night
Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.77, Oxford University Press

Few men are of one plain, decided color; most are mixed, shaded, and blended; and vary as much, from different situations, as changeable silks do from different lights.

Lord Chesterfield
Life, Success, Men
Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.260, Oxford University Press

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

Lord Chesterfield
Inspirational, Life, Wise

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.

Lord Chesterfield
Life, Wise, Wisdom
Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.34, Wildside Press LLC

When I reflect upon what I have seen, what I have heard, what I have done, I can hardly persuade myself that all that frivolous hurry and bustle and pleasure of the world had any reality; and I look on what has passed as one of those wild dreams which opium occasions, and I by no means wish to repeat the nauseous dose for the sake of the fugitive illusion.

Lord Chesterfield
Life, Dream, Mean

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