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Tis A Well Spent Penny That Saves A Groat.

If You Want A Neat Wife, Choose Her On A Saturday.

Little Rogues Easily Become Great Ones.

He That Drinks His Cyder Alone, Let Him Catch His Horse Alone.

A Place For Everything, Everything In Its Place.

In Free Governments The Rulers Are The Servants, And The People Their Superiors And Sovereigns.

The Way To Be Safe Is Never To Be Secure.

Trouble Springs From Idleness, And Grievous Toil From Needless Ease.

It Is Better To Let 100 Criminals Go Free Than To Imprison 1 Innocent Man.

Be Temperate In Wine, In Eating, Girls, & Sloth; Or The Gout Will Seize You And Plague You Both.

Never Ruin An Apology With An Excuse.

Temperance Puts Wood On The Fire, Meal In The Barrel, Flour In The Tub, Money In The Purse, Credit In The Country, Contentment In The House, Clothes On The Back, And Vigor In The Body.

If Jack's In Love, He's No Judge Of Jill's Beauty.

Many Have Been Ruined By Buying Good Pennyworths.

Force Shites Upon Reason's Back.

Strict Punctuality Is A Cheap Virtue.

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

He That Takes A Wife, Takes Care

Love And Marriage

That Which Hurts, Also Instructs.

Tricks And Treachery Are The Practice Of Fools, That Don't Have Brains Enough To Be Honest.

Speak Little, Do Much.

Blessed Is He That Expects Nothing, For He Shall Never Be Disappointed. Expect Nothing - Get Nothing! But Expect Something - Get Something!!

What Science Can There Be More Noble, More Excellent, More Useful For Men, More Admirably High And Demonstrative, Than This Of Mathematics?

Wealth And Content Are Not Always Bed-fellows.

God Bless The King, And Grant Him Long To Reign.

He That Is Good For Making Excuses Is Seldom Good For Anything Else.

Avoid Dishonest Gain: No Price Can Recompence The Pangs Of Vice.

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

Think What You Do When You Run In Debt: You Give To Another Power Over Your Liberty

I Firmly Believe This ... That Without His Concurring Aid We Shall Succeed In This Political Building No Better, Than The Builders Of Babel: We Shall Be Divided By Our Little Partial Local Interests; Our Projects Will Be Confounded, And We Ourselves Shall Become A Reproach And Bye Word Down To Future Ages. And What Is Worse, Mankind May Hereafter From This Unfortunate Instance, Despair Of Establishing Governments By Human Wisdom And Leave It To Chance, War And Conquest.

Dally Not With Other Folk's Spouses Or Money.

An Investment In Knowledge Pays The Best Interest. When It Comes To Investing, Nothing Will Pay Off More Than Educating Yourself. Do The Necessary Research, Study And Analysis Before Making Any Investment Decisions.

A Flatterer Never Seems Absurd: The Flatter'd Always Takes His Word.

God Heals, And The Doctor Takes The Fees. Energy And Persistence Conquer All Things. He That Is Good For Making Excuses Is Seldom Good For Anything Else. How Many Observe Christ's Birthday! How Few, His Precepts! Oh, It's Easier To Keep Holidays Than Commandments. Well Done Is Better Than Well Said.

The Person Who Deserves Most Pity Is A Lonesome One On A Rainy Day Who Doesn't Know How To Read.

Hold Your Council Before Dinner; The Full Belly Hates Thinking As Well As Acting.

As We Must Account For Every Idle Word, So Must We Account For Every Idle Silence.

Where There's Marriage Without Love, There Will Be Love Without Marriage.

When Will Mankind Be Convinced And Agree To Settle Their Difficulties By Arbitration?

The Use Of Money Is All The Advantage There Is In Having Money.

Be In General Virtuous, And You Will Be Happy. At Least, You Will By Such Conduct, Stand The Best Chance For Such Consequences.

Idleness And Pride Tax With A Heavier Hand Than Kings And Governments.

Where Security Exists, Liberty And Opportunity Do Not.

You And I Were Long Friends: You Are Now My Enemy, And I Am Yours.

Taxes On Consumption, Like Those On Capital Or Income, To Be Just, Must Be Uniform.

Moses Lifting Up His Wand, And Dividing The Red Sea, And Pharaoh In His Chariot Overwhelmed With The Waters. This Motto: "rebellion To Tyrants Is Obedience To God."

We Have Been Assured, Sir, In The Sacred Writings, That 'except The Lord Build The House, They Labor In Vain That Build It' I Firmly Believe This; By Our Partial Local Interests; Our Projects Will Be Confounded, And We Ourselves Shall Become A Reproach And A By Word Down To Future Ages.

You Will Discover 3 Trustworthy Mates, An Aged Wife, An Aged Canine, And Ready Dollars.

He That Rises Late Must Trot All Day.

Let Me Resolve To Be Virtuous, That I May Be Happy, That I May Please Him, Who Is Delighted To See Me Happy. Amen.

I Wish It (christianity) Were More Productive Of Good Works ... I Mean Real Good Works ... Not Holy Day Keeping, Sermon-hearing ... Or Making Long Prayers, Filled With Flatteries And Compliments Despised By Wise Men, And Much Less Capable Of Pleasing The Deity.

Necessity Never Made A Good Bargain.

Perhaps The History Of The Errors Of Mankind, All Things Considered, Is More Valuable And Interesting Than That Of Their Discoveries. Truth Is Uniform And Narrow; It Constantly Exists, And Does Not Seem To Require So Much An Active Energy, As A Passive Aptitude Of The Soul In Order To Encounter It. But Error Is Endlessly Diversified; It Has No Reality, But Is The Pure And Simple Creation Of The Mind That Invents It. In This Field The Soul Has Room Enough To Expand Herself, To Display All Her Boundless Faculties, And All Her Beautiful And Interesting Extravagancies And Absurdities.

People Willing To Trade Their Freedom For Temporary Security Deserve Neither And Will Lose Both.

Security And Freedom

Industry And Patience Are The Surest Means Of Plenty.

Little Boats Should Keep Near Shore

Nothing But Money, Is Sweeter Than Honey.

Silence - Speak Not But What May Benefit Others Or Yourself; Avoid Trifling Conversation.

Forewarn'd, Forearm'd.

This Modesty In A Sect Is Perhaps A Singular Instance In The History Of Mankind, Every Other Sect Supposing Itself In Possession Of All Truth, And That Those Who Differ Are So Far In The Wrong ; Like A Man Traveling In Foggy Weather, Those At Some Distance Before Him On The Road He Sees Wrapped Up In The Fog, As Well As Those Behind Him, And Also The People In The Fields On Each Side, But Near Him All Appears Clear, Tho' In Truth He Is As Much In The Fog As Any Of Them.

Pride Is As Loud A Beggar As Want, And A Great Deal More Saucy. When You Have Bought One Fine Thing, You Must Buy Ten More, That Your Appearance May Be All Of A Piece; But It Is Easier To Suppress The First Desire Than To Satisfy All That Follow It.

Words May Show A Man's Wit But Actions His Meaning.

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

He Who Gives Up Freedom For Safety Deserves Neither.

You May Delay, But Time Will Not.

An Honest Man Will Receive Neither Money Nor Praise That Is Not His Due.

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.

An Investment In Knowledge Pays The Best Interest.

The Us Constitution Only Guarantees Your Rights As A Citizen, It Doesn't Guarantee Happiness. It May Take Work, But If You Have Your Rights, Happiness Is Very Possible.

Strive To Be The Best And You May Succeed: He May Well Win The Race That Runs By Himself.

Unless The Stream Of Their Importation Could Be Turned... They Will Soon So Outnumber Us, That All The Advantages We Have, Will Not In My Opinion Be Able To Preserve Our Language, And Even Our Government Will Become Precarious.

Evils Come Not, Then Our Fears Are Vain; And If They Do Fear But Augments The Pain.

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.

It Is Observable That God Has Often Called Men To Places Of Dignity And Honor When They Have Been Busy In The Honest Employment Of Their Vocation.

Women Are Books, And Men The Readers Be.

The Importation Of Foreigners Into A Country That Has As Many Inhabitants As The Present Employments And Provisions For Subsistence Will Bear, Will Be In The End No Increase Of People, Unless The New Comers Have More Industry And Frugality Than The Natives, And Then They Will Provide More Subsistence, And Increase In The Country; But They Will Gradually Eat The Natives Out. Nor Is It Necessary To Bring In Foreigners To Fill Up Any Occasional Vacancy In A Country For Such Vacancy Will Soon Be Filled By Natural Generation.

Keep Conscience Clear, Then Never Fear.

I Have Never Seen The Philosopher's Stone That Turns Lead Into Gold, But I Have Known The Pursuit Of It Turn A Man's Gold Into Lead.

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

Getting Into Debt, Is Getting Into A Tanglesome Net.

If You Give Up Your Freedom For Safety, You Don't Deserve Either One

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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.

Out Of Adversity Comes Opportunity.

I Am For Doing Good To The Poor, But I Differ In Opinion About The Means. I Think The Best Way Of Doing Good To The Poor Is Not Making Them Easy In Poverty, But Leading Or Driving Them Out Of It.

Liberality Is Not Giving Much, But Giving Wisely.

Drive Your Business. Let Not Your Business Drive You.

No Better Relation Than A Prudent And Faithful Friend.

Love Your Enemies, For They Tell You Your Faults.

Plough Deep While Sluggards Sleep.

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

There Are Two Ways Of Being Happy: We Must Either Diminish Our Wants Or Augment Our Means - Either May Do - The Result Is The Same And It Is For Each Man To Decide For Himself And To Do That Which Happens To Be Easier.

If You Fail To Plan, You Are Planning To Fail!

Tolerate No Uncleanliness In Body, Clothes, Or Habitation.

At A Great Pennyworth Pause A While.

Be Studious In Your Profession, And You Will Be Learned. Be Industrious And Frugal, And You Will Be Rich. Be Sober And Temperate, And You Will Be Healthy. Be In General Virtuous, And You Will Be Happy.

Most People Return Small Favors, Acknowledge Medium Ones And Repay Greater Ones - With Ingratitude.

Flesh Eating Is Unprovoked Murder.

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The Happy State Of Matrimony Is, Undoubtedly, The Surest And Most Lasting Foundation Of Comfort And Love . . . The Cause Of All Good Order In The World, And What Alone Preserves It From The Utmost Confusion.

Perhaps I Was Too Saucy And Provoking.

There Never Was A Good War, Or A Bad Peace.

Be In General Virtuous, And You Will Be Happy.

Diligence Is The Mother Of Good Luck, And God Gives All Things To Industry. Work While It Is Called Today, For You Know Not How Much You May Be Hindered By Tomorrow. One Today Is Worth Two Tomorrows; Never Leave That Till Tomorrow Which You Can Do To-day.

Procrastination

Despair Ruins Some, Presumption Many.

If You Teach A Poor Young Man To Shave Himself, And Keep His Razor In Order, You May Contribute More To The Happiness Of His Life Than In Giving Him A Thousand Guineas. This Sum May Be Soon Spent, The Regret Only Remaining Of Having Foolishly Consumed It; But In The Other Case, He Escapes The Frequent Vexation Of Waiting For Barbers, And Of Their Sometimes Dirty Fingers, Offensive Breaths, And Dull Razors.

No European Who Has Tasted Savage Life Can Afterwards Bear To Live In Our Societies.

Take Heed Of The Vinegar Of Sweet Wine, And The Anger Of Good-nature.

The Cunning Man Steals A Horse, The Wise Man Lets Him Alone.

If We Restrict Liberty To Attain Security We Will Lose Them Both.

There Is No Little Enemy

We Are Not So Sensible Of The Greatest Health As Of The Least Sickness.

An Autobiography Usually Reveals Nothing Bad About Its Writer Except His Memory.

Let Every Fart Count As A Peal Of Thunder For Liberty. Let Every Fart Remind The Nation Of How Much It Has Let Pass Out Of Its Control. It Is A Small Gesture, But One That Can Be Very Effective - Especially In A Large Crowd. So Fart, And If You Must, Fart Often. But Always Fart Without Apology. Fart For Freedom, Fart For Liberty - And Fart Proudly.

Time Is The Stuff Life Is Made Of.

Common Sense Is Something That Everyone Needs, Few Have, And None Think They Lack.

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

Love, Cough, & A Smoke, Can't Well Be Hid.

Idleness Is The Dead Sea That Swallows All Virtues. Be Active In Business, That Temptation May Miss Her Aim; The Bird That Sits Is Easily Shot.

But The Eyes Of Other People Are The Eyes That Ruin Us. If All But Myself Were Blind, I Should Want Neither Fine Clothes, Fine Houses Nor Fine Furniture.

Many Complain Of Their Memory, Few Of Their Judgment.

Leisure Is The Time For Doing Something Useful.

When The Well Is Dry, We Know The Worth Of Water.

Let The Experiment Be Made.

Those Who Would Trade In Their Freedom For Their Protection Deserve Neither.

My Refusing To Eat Flesh Occasioned An Inconveniency, And I Was Frequently Chid For My Singularity.

The Foundation Of All Happiness In Thinking Rightly.

People Who Are Wrapped Up In Themselves Make Small Packages.

Virtues, Of ... Justice: Wrong None By Doing Injuries Or Omitting The Benefits That Are Your Duty.

Energy And Persistence Conquer All Things.

He That Is Rich Need Not Live Sparingly, And He That Can Live Sparingly Need Not Be Rich.

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

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

America Cultivates Best What Germany Brought Forth.

Genius Is Nothing But A Greater Aptitude For Patience.

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.

Anyone Willing To Give Up Liberty In Exchange For Security Deserves Neither.

It Is Much Easier To Suppress A First Desire Than To Satisfy Those That Follow.

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

From A Child I Was Fond Of Reading, And All The Little Money That Came Into My Hands Was Ever Laid Out In Books.

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

Oh The Wonderful Knowledge To Be Found In The Stars. Even The Smallest Things Are Written There ... If You Had But Skill To Read.

Beer Is Proof That God Wants Us To Be Happy

The Honey Is Sweet, But The Bee Has A Sting.

Those Who Sacrifice Essential Liberty For Temporary Safety Are Not Deserving Of Either Liberty Or Safety.

A Full Belly Makes A Dull Brain: The Muses Starve In A Cook's Shop.

Fatigue Is The Best Pillow.

I Am Lord Of Myself, Accountable To None.

A Man May, If He Knows Not How To Save As He Gets, Keep His Nose To The Grindstone.

Practice Makes Perfect.

Practice Makes Perfect

I Scarce Ever Heard Or Saw The Introductory Words, "without Vanity I May Say," Etc., But Some Vain Thing Immediately Followed.

Paintings And Fightings Are Best Seen At A Distance.

There Are No Ugly Loves Nor Handsome Prisons.

The Things Of This World Take Up Too Much Of My Time, Of Which Indeed I Have Too Little Left, To Undertake Anything Like A Reformation In Religion.

Virtue Alone Is Sufficient To Make A Man Great, Glorious, And Happy.

Mine Is Better Than Ours.

As Charms Are Nonsense, Nonsense Is A Charm.

It Is Very Hard To Dislike Someone You Have Helped

Dislike Someone

Beer Is God's Way Of Telling Us That He Loves Us And Wants Us To Be Happy.

Be Sober And Temperate, And You Will Be Healthy.

Lost Time Is Never Found Again.

Do Not Do That Which You Would Not Have Known.

In America, They Do Not Inquire Of A Stranger, "what Is He?" But, "what Can He Do?"

We Have No Poor Houses In The Colonies, And If We Had, We Would Have No One To Put In Them, As In The Colonies There Is Not A Single Unemployed Man, No Poor And No Vagabonds.

Private Property...is The Creature Of Society And Is Subject To The Calls Of That Society Even To The Last Farthing.

So Convenient A Thing To Be A Reasonable Creature, Since It Enables One To Find Or Make A Reason For Every Thing One Has A Mind To Do.

One Today Is Worth Two Tomorrows.

Who Is Rich? He That Rejoices In His Portion.

Nothing Great Comes Without Enthusiasm.

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

If It Were Not For The Belly, The Back Might Wear Gold.

All Wars Are Follies, Very Expensive And Very Mischievous Ones. In My Opinion, There Never Was A Good War Or A Bad Peace. When Will Mankind Be Convinced And Agree To Settle Their Difficulties By Arbitration?

Great Hopes Make Everything Great Possible

A Learned Blockhead Is A Greater Blockhead Than An Ignorant One.

The Best Thing To Give To Your Enemy Is Forgiveness; To An Opponent, Tolerance; To A Friend, Your Heart; To Your Child, A Good Example; To A Father, Deference; To Your Mother, Conduct That Will Make Her Proud Of You; To Yourself, Respect; To All Others, Charity.

If You, Do What You Should Not, You Must Bear What You Would Not.

God Helps Them That Help Themselves.

Indeed The General Natural Tendency Of Reading Good History, Must Be, To Fix In The Minds Of Youth Deep Impressions Of The Beauty And Usefulness Of Virtue Of All Kinds, Publick Spirit, Fortitude.

When Circumstances Don't Fit Our Ideas They Become Our Difficulties

He That Spends A Groat A Day Idly, Spends Idly Above 6 L. A Year, Which Is The Price Of Using 100 L.

You Can Do Anything You Set Your Mind To

I Am A Mortal Enemy To Arbitrary Government And Unlimited Power. I Am Naturally Very Jealous For The Rights And Liberties Of My Country, And The Least Encroachment Of Those Invaluable Privileges Is Apt To Make My Blood Boil.

A Lady Asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor What Have We Got A Republic Or A Monarchy - "a Republic," Replied The Doctor, "if You Can Keep It."

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

Time Is An Herb That Cures All Diseases.

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

Changing The World

Remember, Sir, That [england] Began The Slave Trade!

While We May Not Be Able To Control All That Happens To Us, We Can Control What Happens Inside Us.

No Nation Has Ever Been Ruined By Trade.

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

In These Sentiments, 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 Believe Further, 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.

He Is Not Well Bred, That Cannot Bear Ill Breeding In Others

I Have Met The Enemy, And It Is The Eyes Of Other People.

Applause Waits On Success.

Congratulations

He Is Ill Clothed That Is Bare Of Virtue.

God Works Wonders Now And Then; Behold A Lawyer, An Honest Man.

A Life Of Leisure And A Life Of Laziness Are Two Things. There Will Be Sleeping Enough In The Grave.

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.

A Wicked Hero Will Turn His Back To An Innocent Coward.

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