 | Church work with youth - 1918 - 794 pages
...study of the Word. There is nothing more stimulating to a true, genuine Christian life.— Selected. It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. — Buy War Savings Stamps. LUTHER LEAGUE TOPICS (Continued from p'igc 29.) Did e'er such love and... | |
 | Church work with youth - 1920 - 834 pages
...upon him. So there ig really no excuse for allowing one's self to be overcome. Some one has said : "It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow after," and it is easier to overcome the first temptation to do wrong than it is to break away from... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 90 pages
...ripe. What will not Lux'ry taste? Earth, Sea, and Air, Are daily ransack'd for the Bill of Fare. 'Tis easier to suppress the first Desire, than to satisfy all that follow it. Don't judge of Men's Wealth or Piety, by their Sunday Appearances. As honest Hodge the Farmer sow'd... | |
 | Jeane Eddy Westin - Health & Fitness - 1996 - 476 pages
...overeater, self-control comes down to resisting the first bite of unneeded food. As Benjamin Franklin said, "It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it." That first extra bite is easier to stop than the binge that can follow. For today, refuse that first... | |
 | Ann Bourman - Education - 1997 - 133 pages
...certainly make it ugly. 29. Tomorrow every fault is to be amended; but that tomorrow never comes. 30. Tis easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it. (D 13. Mark Twain Skills: Thinking, writing, reading, listening. Objectives: To explain in writing... | |
 | Caroline Postelle Clotfelter - Business & Economics - 1996 - 356 pages
...wealth small, and the wants great. Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy; 'tis easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it. — Benjamin Franklin Pennsylvania Gazette 1732 The First Advertisement of Poor Richard's Almanac Just... | |
 | David E. Nye - Technology & Engineering - 1999 - 358 pages
...furnishings for an entire room.) Benjamin Franklin also noted this "effect" and warned against it: "When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy...appearance may be all of a piece; but Poor Dick says 'tis easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it." 49 Such sermonizing,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 76 pages
...Sting. ' I 4> i O « <» I • Success has ruin'd many a Man. God helps them that help themselves. Tis easier to suppress the first Desire, than to satisfy all that follow it. Work as if you were to live 100 years. Pray as if you were to die To-morrow. If you do what you should... | |
 | Curtis Hutson - Religion - 2000 - 164 pages
..."The reason a certain person is so short is because the Bible says, 'The wicked shall be cut off.' " It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. — Franklin. A gash in the conscience may disfigure a soul forever. — Spurgeon. Bad things in life... | |
 | Bruce Northam - Travel - 2011 - 194 pages
...the yellow pages, or in the cafe nearest the post office. Remember, home is where the payments are. "It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it." — Benjamin Franklin "This no place like home. " — Cypriot Night Club bouncer explaining local hospitality... | |
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When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but Poor Dick says, It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it. 
