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A Temperate Diet Frees From Diseases; Such Are Seldom Ill, But If They Are Surprised With Sickness, They Bear It Better, And Recover Sooner; For Most Distempers Have Their Original From Repletion.

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A Temperate Diet Frees From Diseases; Such Are Seldom Ill, But If They Are Surprised With Sickness, They Bear It Better, And Recover Sooner; For Most Distempers Have Their Original From Repletion.

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Kill No More Pigeons Than You Can Eat.

Avarice And Happiness Never Saw Each Other, How Then Should They Become Acquainted?

Poverty Often Deprives A Man Of All Spirit And Virtue; It Is Hard For An Empty Bag To Stand Upright.

Vicious Actions Are Not Hurtful Because They Are Forbidden, But Forbidden Because They Are Hurtful.

A Word To The Wise Is Enough, And Many Words Won't Fill A Bushel.

My Refusing To Eat Meat Occasioned Inconveniency, And I Have Been Frequently Chided For My Singularity. But My Light Repast Allows For Greater Progress, For Greater Clearness Of Head And Quicker Comprehension.

Don't Overload Gratitude; If You Do, She'll Kick.

When Women Cease To Be Handsome, They Study To Be Good.

The Good Education Of Youth Has Been Esteemed By Wise Men In All Ages, As The Surest Foundation Of The Happiness Both Of Private Families And Of Common-wealths. Almost All Governments Have Therefore Made It A Principal Object Of Their Attention, To Establish And Endow With Proper Revenues, Such Seminaries Of Learning, As Might Supply The Succeeding Age With Men Qualified To Serve The Publick With Honour To Themselves, And To Their Country.

It Is Ill-manners To Silence A Fool And Cruelty To Let Him Go On

Getting It Done Is My Reward.

Time Management

Eat Few Suppers, And You'll Need Few Medicines.

Creditors Have Better Memories Than Debtors.

Who Pleasure Gives, Shall Joy Receive

Keep Flax From Fire, And Youth From Gaming.

Liberality Is Not Giving Much, But Giving Wisely.

Laws Too Gentle Are Seldom Obeyed; Too Severe, Seldom Executed.

Wine Is Constant Proof That God Loves Us And Likes To See Us Happy.

The Early Morning Has Gold In Its Mouth.

Rising In The Morning

A Man Of Knowledge Like A Rich Soil, Feeds If Not A World Of Corn, A World Of Weeds.

While The Path To Wealth Is Clearly Marked, Few Are Willing To Adapt Themselves To The Modest Discipline That The Journey Requires. Instead, Most Choose The Shinier Track Of Debt-driven Consumption, Which They Find Further Along Is Covered In Vines And Thorns.

An Undutiful Daughter Will Prove An Unmanageable Wife.

Scarcely Was I Arrived At Fifteen Years Of Age, When, After Having Doubted In Turn Of Different Tenets, According As I Found Them Combated In The Different Books That I Read, I Began To Doubt Of Revelation Itself.

Without Freedom Of Thought, There Can Be No Such Thing As Wisdom; And No Such Thing As Public Liberty Without Freedom Of Speech; Which Is The Right Of Every Man As Far As By It He Does Not Hurt Or Control The Right Of Another; And This Is The Only Check It Ought To Suffer And The Only Bounds It Ought To Know.... Whoever Would Overthrow The Liberty Of A Nation Must Begin By Subduing The Freedom Of Speech, A Thing Terrible To Traitors.

There Seems To Be Three Ways For A Nation To Acquire Wealth: The First Is By War...this Is Robbery; The Second By Commerce, Which Is Generally Cheating; The Third By Agriculture, The Only Honest Way.

The Apostle Paul Very Seriously Advised Timothy To Put Some Wine In His Water For Health's Sake, But Not One Of The Apostles Nor Any Of The Holy Fathers Have Ever Recommended Putting Water In Wine

I Know As Well As Thee That I Am No Poet Born It Is A Trade, I Never Learnt Nor Indeed Could Learn If I Make Verses-'tis In Spite Of Nature And My Stars I Write.

When Nature Gave Us Tears, She Gave Us Leave To Weep.

A Traveller Should Have A Hog's Nose, A Deer's Legs, And An Ass's Back.

By The Word Simplicity, Is Not Always Meant Folly Or Ignorance; But Often, Pure And Upright Nature, Free From Artifice, Craft Or Deceitful Ornament.

I Think Opinions Should Be Judged By Their Influences And Effects; And If A Man Holds None That Tend To Make Him Less Virtuous Or More Vicious, It May Be Concluded That He Holds None That Are Dangerous, Which I Hope Is The Case With Me.

I Guess I Don't So Much Mind Being Old, As I Mind Being Fat And Old.

A Lighthouse Is More Useful Than A Church.

Let No Pleasure Tempt Thee, No Profit Allure Thee, No Persuasion Move Thee, To Do Anything Which Thou Knowest To Be Evil; So Shalt Thou Always Live Jollity; For A Good Conscience Is A Continual Christmas.

Some Make Conscience Of Wearing A Hat In The Church, Who Make None Of Robbing The Altar.

Here Skugg Lies Snug As A Bug In A Rug.

If A Man Empties His Purse Into His Head, No One Can Take It From Him.

Alas, I Know If I Ever Became Truly Humble, I Would Be Proud Of It.

There Is Scarce A King In A Hundred Who Would Not, If He Could, Follow The Example Of Pharoah - Get First All The People's Money, Then All Their Lands, And Then Make Them And Their Children Servants Forever.

Joy Doesn't Exist In The World, It Exists In Us.

Without Continual Growth And Progress, Such Words As Improvement, Achievement, And Success Have No Meaning.

Congratulations

If Any Man Flatters Me, I'll Flatter Him Again; Tho' He Were My Best Friend.

How Do You Become Better Tomorrow? By Improving Yourself, The World Is Made Better. Be Not Afraid Of Growing Too Slowly. Be Afraid Of Standing Still. Forget Your Mistakes, But Remember What They Taught You. So How Do You Become Better Tomorrow? By Becoming Better Today.

Becoming Better

The Best Way To Help The Poor Is To Make Them Uncomfortable In Their Own Poverty.

You May Give Give A Man Office, But You Cannot Give Him Discretion

What Is The Use Of A New-born Child ?

Be Cheerful -- The Problems That Worry Us Most Are Those That Never Arrive.

Without Industry And Frugality, Nothing Will Do; With Them, Everything.

An Infallible Remedy For The Tooth-ach, Viz Wash The Root Of An Aching Tooth, In Elder Vinegar, And Let It Dry Half An Hour In The Sun; After Which It Will Never Ach More; Probatum Est.

When Knaves Betray Each Other, One Can Scarce Be Blamed Or The Other Pitied.

In Success Be Moderate. Humility Makes Great Men Twice Honourable.

Pardoning The Bad, Is Injuring The Good.

Notwithstanding My Experiments With Electricity The Thunderbolt Continues To Fall Under Our Noses And Beards; And As For The Tyrant, There Are A Million Of Us Still Engaged At Snatching Away His Sceptre.

If You Want To Make A Friend, Let Someone Do You A Favor.

The Doors Of Wisdom Are Never Shut.

Without Freedom Of Thought There Can Be No Such Thing As Wisdom;and No Such Thing As Public Liberty, Without Freedom Of Speech.

Read Much, But Not Too Many Books.

When You're Testing To See How Deep Water Is, Never Use Two Feet.

Despair Ruins Some, Presumption Many.

Approve Not Of Him Who Commends All You Say.

We Are More Thoroughly An Enlightened People, With Respect To Our Political Interests, Than Perhaps Any Other Under Heaven. Every Man Among Us Reads, And Is So Easy In His Circumstances As To Have Leisure For Conversations Of Improvement And For Acquiring Information.

I Have Lived, Sir, A Long Time, And The Longer I Live, The More Convincing Proofs I See Of This Truth — That God Governs In The Affairs Of Men.

Spare When Young, And Spend When Old.

A Slip Of The Foot You May Soon Recover, But A Slip Of The Tongue You May Never Get Over.

Trusting Too Much To Others Care Is The Ruin Of Many.

He Who Gives Up Freedom For Safety Deserves Neither.

Leisure Is The Time For Doing Something Useful.

Freedom Is Not A Gift Bestowed Upon Us By Other Men, But A Right That Belongs To Us By The Laws Of God And Nature.

Among The Numerous Luxuries Of The Table...coffee May Be Considered As One Of The Most Valuable. It Excites Cheerfulness Without Intoxication; And The Pleasing Flow Of Spirits Which It Occasions...is Never Followed By Sadness, Languor Or Debility.

Human Happiness Comes Not From Infrequent Pieces Of Good Fortune, But From The Small Improvements To Daily Life.

Lawyers, Preachers, And Tomtits Eggs, There Are More Of Them Hatch'd Than Come To Perfection.

Praise To The Undeserving Is Severe Satire.

The Thrifty Maxim Of The Wary Dutch, Is To Save All The Money They Can Touch

Sloth Makes All Things Difficult, But Industry All Easy; And He That Riseth Late Must Trot All Day, And Shall Scarce Overtake His Business At Night; While Laziness Travels So Slowly, That Poverty Soon Overtakes Him.

It Was Said Of Him That He Did Not Say Much, But That When He Did Everyone Stopped To Listen.

The Only Time A Question Should Be Asked Is When All Other Possibilities Of Finding The Answer For Yourself Have Been Eliminated.

Interest Which Blinds Some People, Enlightens Others.

Promises May Get Thee Friends, But Non-performance Will Turn Them Into Enemies.

Keeping Promises

Broken Promises

Many A Long Dispute Among Divines May Be Thus Abridged: It Is So; It Is Not So. It Is So; It Is Not So.

A Man Is Sometimes More Generous When He Has But A Little Money Than When He Has Plenty, Perhaps Through Fear Of Being Thought To Have But Little.

Abuses Of The Freedom Of Speech Ought To Be Repressed, But To Whom Are We To Commit The Power Of Doing It?

Freedom Of Speech

Great Good Nature Without Prudence Is A Great Misfortune.

There's No Gain, Without Pain.

It Is The Will Of God And Nature That These Mortal Bodies Be Laid Aside, When The Soul Is To Enter Into Real Life; 'tis Rather An Embrio State, A Preparation For Living; A Man Is Not Completely Born Until He Be Dead: Why Then Should We Grieve That A New Child Is Born Among The Immortals?

If You Wou'd Have Guests Merry With Your Cheer, Be So Your Self, Or So At Least Appear.

To Find Out A Girl's Faults, Praise Her To Her Girlfriends.

Let Honesty And Industry Be Thy Constant Companions, And Spend One Penny Less Than Thy Clear Gains; Then Shall Thy Pocket Begin To Thrive; Creditors Will Not Insult, Nor Want Oppress, Nor Hungerness Bite, Nor Nakedness Freeze Thee

If You Would Have A Faithful Servant, And One That You Like, Serve Yourself.

Faithful Servants

Truth And Sincerity Have A Certain Distinguishing Native Lustre About Them Which Cannot Be Perfectly Counterfeited; They Are Like Fire And Flame, That Cannot Be Painted.

The First Degree Of Folly, Is To Conceit One's Self Wise; The Second To Profess It; The Third To Despise Counsel.

Savages We Call Them, Because Their Manners Differ From Ours, Which We Think The Perfection Of Civility; They Think The Same Of Theirs.

"we Hold These Truths To Be Sacred And Undeniable" In A Draft Of The Declaration Of Independence Changes It Instead Into An Assertion Of Rationality. The Scientific Mind Of Franklin Drew On The Scientific Determinism Of Isaac Newton And The Analytic Empiricism Of David Hume And Gottfried Leibniz. In What Became Known As "hume's Fork" The Latters' Theory Distinguished Between Synthetic Truths That Describe Matters Of Fact, And Analytic Truths That Are Self-evident By Virtue Of Reason And Definition.

The Most Acceptable Service Of God Is Doing Good To Man.

All Cats Look Gray In The Dark.

It Is Foolish To Lay Out Money For The Purchase Of Repentance.

Historians Relate Not So Much What Is Done As What They Would Have Believed.

Beware Of The Young Doctor And The Old Barber.

Some Of The Domestic Evils Of Drunkenness Are Houses Without Windows, Gardens Without Fences, Fields Without Tillage, Barns Without Roofs, Children Without Clothing, Principles, Morals Or Manners.

Tomorrow, Every Fault Is To Be Amended; But That Tomorrow Never Comes.

Tomorrow Never Comes

If You Have Time Don't Wait For Time.

Two Passions Have Powerful Influence On The Affairs Of Men: The Love Of Power And The Love Of Money.

The Foundation Of All Happiness In Thinking Rightly.

I Early Found That When I Worked For Myself Alone, Myself Alone Worked For Me; But When I Worked For Others Also, Others Worked Also For Me.

I Have Conceived A Higher Opinion Of The Natural Capacities Of The Black Race Than I Had Ever Before Entertained. Their Apprehension Seems As Quick, Their Memory As Strong, And Their Docility In Every Respect Equal To That Of White Children.

There Is Much Money Given To Be Laughed At, Though The Purchasers Don't Know It; Witness A.'s Fine Horse, And B.'s Fine House.

If Your Riches Are Yours, Why Don't You Take Them With You To The Other World?

Tis A Great Confidence In A Friend To Tell Him Your Faults; Greater To Tell Him His.

Distrust And Caution Are The Parents Of Security.

My List Of Virtues Contain'd At First But Twelve: But A Quaker Friend Having Kindly Inform'd Me That I Was Generally Thought Proud; That My Pride Show'd Itself Frequently In Conversation; That I Was Not Content With Being In The Right When Discussing Any Point, But Was Overbearing & Rather Insolent; Of Which He Convinc'd Me By Mentioning Several Instances; - I Determined Endeavouring To Cure Myself ..., And I Added Humility To My List, Giving An Extensive Meaning To The Word.

Fish & Visitors Stink In 3 Days.

The Wise Man Draws More Advantage From His Enemies Than The Fool From His Friends

To Cease To Think Creatively Is To Cease To Live

What Maintains One Vice Would Bring Up Two Children.

Mankind Naturally And Generally Love To Be Flatter'd.

Hide Not Your Talents. They For Use Were Made. What's A Sundial In The Shade?

Electrical Matter Differs From Common Matter In This, That The Parts Of The Latter Mutually Attract, Those Of The Former Mutually Repel Each Other.

Some Are Weatherwise, Some Are Otherwise.

We May Give Advice, But We Cannot Give Conduct.

Anger Is Never Without A Reason, But Seldom With A Good One.

Christians Are Directed To Have Faith In Christ, As The Effectual Means Of Obtaining The Change They Desire.

Scarcely Have I Ever Heard Or Read The Introductory Phrase, "i May Say Without Vanity," But Some Striking And Characteristic Instance Of Vanity Has Immediately Followed.

Don't Halloo Until You're Out Of The Wood.

In Order To Be Happy You Need A Good Dog, A Good Woman, And Ready Money.

Keep Your Eyes Wide Open Before Marriage, Half Shut Afterwards.

Fatigue Is The Best Pillow.

Masonic Labor Is Purely A Labor Of Love. He Who Seeks To Draw Masonic Wages In Gold And Silver Will Be Disappointed. The Wages Of A Mason Are In The Dealings With One Another; Sympathy Begets Sympathy, Kindness Begets Kindness, Helpfulness Begets Helpfulness, And These Are The Wages Of A Mason.

Blame-all And Praise-all Are Two Blockheads.

By Heaven We Understand A State Of Happiness Infinite In Degree, And Endless In Duration.

If You Do Tomorrow What You Did Today , You Will Get Tomorrow What You Got Today

Content Makes Poor Men Rich; Discontent Makes Rich Men Poor.

I Never Knew A Man Who Was Good At Making Excuses Who Was Good At Anything Else.

Grief For A Dead Wife, And A Troublesome Guest, Continues To The Threshold, And There Is At Rest; But I Mean Such Wives As Are None Of The Best

Great Modesty Often Hides Great Merit.

We Must Hang Together, Gentlemen...else, We Shall Most Assuredly Hang Separately.

In This World Nothing Can Be Said To Be Certain, Except Death And Taxes.

A Man Separated From His Reflective Belt Is No Man At All.

Disdain The Chain, Preserve Your Freedom; And Maintain Your Independency: Be Industrious And Free; Be Frugal And Free.

We Constantly Change The World, Even By Our Inaction. Therefore, Let Us Change It Responsibly.

Changing The World

When Religion Is Good, It Will Take Care Of Itself. When It Is Not Able To Take Care Of Itself, And God Does Not See Fit To Take Care Of It, So That It Has To Appeal To The Civil Power For Support, It Is Evidence To My Mind That Its Cause Is A Bad One.

Those Who Laugh Often Never Grow Old.

He Who Would Trade Liberty For Some Temporary Security, Deserves Neither Liberty Nor Security.

If You Have Something To Do Tomorrow, Do It Today.

The Good Or Ill Hap Of A Good Or Ill Life, Is The Good Or Ill Choice Of A Good Or Ill Wife.

A Man Is Not Completely Born Until He Is Dead.

You Must Not, When You Have Gained A Victory, Use Any Triumphing Or Insulting Expressions, Nor Show Too Much Of The Pleasure You Feel; But Endeavour To Console Your Adversary, And Make Him Less Dissatisfied With Himself By Every Kind And Civil Expression That May Be Used With Truth; Such As, You Understand The Game Better Than I, But You Are A Little Inattentive, Or, You Play Too Fast; Or, You Had The Best Of The Game, But Something Happened To Divert Your Thoughts, And That Turned It In My Favour.

Handle Your Tools Without Mittens.

There Will Be Sleeping Enough In The Grave.

Positive Thinking

A Countryman Between Two Lawyers Is Like A Fish Between Two Cats.

He Gives Twice That Gives Soon, I.e., He Will Soon Be Called To Give Again.

Visit Your Aunt, But Not Every Day; And Call At Your Brother's, But Not Every Night.

I Saw Few Die Of Hunger; Of Eating, A Hundred Thousand.

Whatever You Become Be Good At It

We Must, Indeed, All Hang Together Or, Most Assuredly, We Shall All Hang Separately.

Let The Child's First Lesson Be Obedience, And The Second Will Be What Thou Wilt.

Some Men Grow Mad By Studying Much To Know, But Who Grows Mad By Studying Good To Grow.

Gain May Be Temporary And Uncertain; But Ever While You Live, Expense Is Constant And Certain: And It Is Easier To Build Two Chimneys Than To Keep One In Fuel.

If You Ever Need A Helping Hand, You'll Find One At The End Of Your Arm. Beer Is Living Proof That God Loves Us And Wants To See Us Happy.

A Man Wrapped Up In Himself Makes A Very Small Bundle.

We Are Spirits. That Bodies Should Be Lent Us While They Afford Us Pleasure, Assist Us In Acquiring Knowledge Or In Doing Good To Our Fellow-creatures, Is A Kind Of Benevolent Act Of God. When They Become Unfit For These Purposes And Afford Us Pain Instead Of Pleasure, Instead Of An Aid Become An Encumbrance And Answer None Of These Intentions For Which They Were Given, It Is Equally Kind And Benevolent That A Way Is Provided By Which We Get Rid Of Them. Death Is That Way.

Give Me 26 Lead Soldiers And I Will Conquer The World.

Conquer The World

Grievances Cannot Be Redressed Until They Are Known; And They Cannot Be Known But Through Complaints And Petitions. If These Are Deemed Affronts, And The Messengers Punished As Offenders, Who Will Henceforth Send Petitions? And Who Will Deliver Them? Wise Governments Encouraged The Airing Of Grievances, Even Those That Were Lightly Founded Foolish Governments Did The Opposite - To Their Peril. Where Complaining Is A Crime, Hope Becomes Despair.

Necessity Is Our Quickest Excuse.

Let Each New Year Find You A Better Person.

Never Take A Wife Till Thou Hast A House (and A Fire) To Put Her In.

An Investment In Education Always Pays The Highest Returns.

Content And Riches Seldom Meet Together, Riches Take Thou, Contentment I Had Rather.

The Grand Leap Of The Whale Up The Fall Of Niagara Is Esteemed, By All Who Have Seen It, As One Of The Finest Spectacles In Nature.

Laziness Travels So Slowly That Poverty Soon Overtakes It.

Instead Of Cursing The Darkness, Light A Candle.

The Best Of All Medicines Is Resting And Fasting

Many People Die At Twenty Five And Aren't Buried Until They Are Seventy Five.

The English Love An Insult. It's Their Only Test Of A Man's Sincerity.

Tis A Common Observation Here That Our Cause Is The Cause Of All Mankind, And That We Are Fighting For Their Liberty In Defending Our Own.

To Be Thrown Upon One's Own Resources, Is To Be Cast In The Very Lap Of Fortune.

He That Hath A Trade Hath An Estate; And He That Hath A Calling Hath A Place Of Profit And Honor. A Ploughman On His Legs Is Higher Than A Gentleman On His Knees.

Happiness Consists More In Small Conveniences Or Pleasures That Occur Every Day, Than In Great Pieces Of Good Fortune That Happen But Seldom To A Man In The Course Of His Life.

If Your Head Is Made Of Wax, Don't Walk In The Sun

Covetousness Is Ever Attended With Solicitude And Anxiety.

Men Are Subject To Various Inconveniences Merely Through Lack Of A Small Share Of Courage, Which Is A Quality Very Necessary In The Common Occurrences Of Life, As Well As In A Battle. How Many Impertinences Do We Daily Suffer With Great Uneasiness, Because We Have Not Courage Enough To Discover Our Dislike.

The Key That Unlocks A Door Is A Key To Keep If You Want To Go Through That Door Again.

Men And Melons Are Hard To Know.

The Tongue Offends And The Ears Get The Cuffing

The Man Who Does Things Makes Mistakes, But He Doesn't Make The Biggest Mistake Of All-doing Nothing.

One Today Is Worth Two Tomorrows. Lost Time Is Never Found Again. Time Is Money. Dost Thou Love Life? Then Do Not Squander Time, For That's The Stuff That Life Is Made Of. You May Delay, But Time Will Not.

Energy And Persistence Conquer All Things.

I Looked Around For God's Judgments, But Saw No Signs Of Them.

Never Ruin An Apology With An Excuse.

There Are Three Faithful Friends - An Old Wife, An Old Dog, And Ready Money.

I Would Advise You To Read With A Pen In Your Hand And Enter In A Little Book Short Hints Of What You Feel That Is Common Or That May Be Useful; For This Will Be The Best Method Of Imprinting Such Portcullis In Your Memory.

What Is The Recipe For Successful Achievement? Choose A Career You Love. Give It The Best There Is In You. Seize Your Opportunities. And Be A Member Of The Team.

Waste Neither Time Nor Money, But Make The Best Use Of Both.

That Wise Men Have In All Ages Thought Government Necessary For The Good Of Mankind; And, That Wise Governments Have Always Thought Religion Necessary For The Well Ordering And Well-being Of Society, And Accordingly Have Been Ever Careful To Encourage And Protect The Ministers Of It, Paying Them The Highest Publick Honours, That Their Doctrines Might Thereby Meet With The Greater Respect Among The Common People.

The World Is Run By The People Who Show Up.

Be Ashamed To Catch Yourself Idle.

Lost Time Can Never Be Found Again

I Say It Is Impossible That So Sensible A People [citizens Of Paris], Under Such Circumstances, Should Have Lived So Long By The Smoky, Unwholesome, And Enormously Expensive Light Of Candles, If They Had Really Known That They Might Have Had As Much Pure Light Of The Sun For Nothing.

A Child Thinks 20 Shillings And 20 Years Can Never Be Spent.

I Should Have No Objection To Go Over The Same Life From Its Beginning To The End: Requesting Only The Advantage Authors Have, Of Correcting In A Second Edition The Faults Of The First.

Out Of Adversity Comes Opportunity.

No Nation Has Ever Been Ruined By Trade.

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