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"A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance."
"A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather."
"A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats."
"A democracy is two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote."
"A good conscience is a continual Christmas."
"A penny saved is a penny earned."
"Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is."
"A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over."
"A small leak can sink a great ship."
"All cats are gray in the dark."
"All would live long, but none would be old."
"An investment in knowledge still yields the best returns."
"Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One."
"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do."
"At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment."
"Be at war with your vices; at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man."
"Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none."
"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing."
"Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich."
"Beware of the young doctor and the old barber."
"But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."
"Clean your finger before you point at my spots."
"Content makes poor men rich; Discontent makes rich men poor."
"Creditors have better memories than debtors."
"Critics are our friends, they tell us our faults."
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!"
"Distrust and caution are the parents of security."
"Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them."
"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."
"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of."
"Drive thy business or it will drive thee."
"Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought to make the worst man good."
"Early morning hath gold in its mouth."
"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
"Eat to live, and not live to eat."
"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society."
"Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure."
"Energy and persistence alter all things."
"Energy and persistence conquer all things."
"Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other."
"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other."
"Fish and visitors smell in three days."
"Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men each, could not cost more than five ships of the line; and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense as that 10,000 men descending from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?"
"For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail."
"Games lubricate the body and the mind."
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine."
"Glass, china and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended."
"God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.'"
"God heals, and the doctor takes the fees."
"He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom."
"He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue."
"He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face."
"He that can have patience can have what he will."
"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."
"He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged."
"He that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else."
"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."
"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money."
"He that lives upon hope will die fasting."
"He that rises late must trot all day."
"He that waits upon Fortune, is never sure of a dinner."
"He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees."
"He was so learned he could name a horse in 9 languages, and bought a cow to ride on."
"He who multiplies riches multiplies cares."
"Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her."
"Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?"
"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments."
"I am in the prime of senility."
"I believe I shall,in some shape or other,always exist; and, with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine, hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected."
"I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it."
"If a man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles."
"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins."
"If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone."
"If you would be loved, love and be lovable."
"If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting."
"If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some; for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing."
"If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect."
"If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life."
"If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun."
"In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires."
"In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top."
"It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them."
"It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man."
"Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed."
"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late."
"Little strokes fell great oaks."
"Lost time is never found again."
"Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults."
"Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it."
"Men and melons are hard to know."
"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; 'Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.'"
"Necessity never made a good bargain."
"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."
"None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing."
"Our critics are our friends; they show us our faults."
"Passion governs, and she never governs wisely."
"Plough deep, while Sluggards sleep; and you shall have Corn, to sell and to keep."
"Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy."
"Read much, but not many books."
"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
"Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve."
"Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed."
"Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices."
"Sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its Faults, if they are such; because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no Form of Government but what may be a Blessing to the People if well administered; and I believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a Course of Years, and can only end in Despotism as other Forms have done before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other."
"Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him."
"So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do."
"Tell me....And I Forget,Teach me.....And I Learn,Involve Me.....And I Remember."
"The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse."
"The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."
"The discontented man finds no easy chair."
"The doors of wisdom are never shut."
"The first mistake in public business is the going into it."
"The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice."
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason."
"There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self."
"There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government."
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
"They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles."
"Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty."
"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."
"Three people can keep a secret so long as two of them are dead."
"Timothy was so learned he could name a horse in 9 languages, and bought a cow to ride on."
"To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote."
"To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible."
"To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly."
"To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals"
"To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions."
"To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it."
"We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately."
"We must indeed all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall hang separately."
"Well done is better than well said."
"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."
"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. Sell not liberty to purchase power."
"Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting,"
"Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."
"Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves."
"Wish not so much to live long as to live well."
"Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble."
"You may delay, but time will not."
"The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?'"
"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing."
"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."
"All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse."