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There Seem To Be But Three Ways For A Nation To Acquire Wealth. The First Is By War, As The Romans Did, In Plundering Their Conquered Neighbors. This Is Robbery. The Second By Commerce, Which Is Generally Cheating. The Third By Agriculture, The Only Honest Way, Wherein Man Receives A Real Increase Of The Seed Thrown Into The Ground, In A Kind Of Continual Miracle, Wrought By The Hand Of God In His Favor, As A Reward For His Innocent Life And His Virtuous Industry.

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There Seem To Be But Three Ways For A Nation To Acquire Wealth. The First Is By War, As The Romans Did, In Plundering Their Conquered Neighbors. This Is Robbery. The Second By Commerce, Which Is Generally Cheating. The Third By Agriculture, The Only Honest Way, Wherein Man Receives A Real Increase Of The Seed Thrown Into The Ground, In A Kind Of Continual Miracle, Wrought By The Hand Of God In His Favor, As A Reward For His Innocent Life And His Virtuous Industry.

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Great Good Nature Without Prudence Is A Great Misfortune.

Many Have Quarreled About Religion That Never Practice It.

Now I've A Sheep And A Cow, Every Body Bids Me Good Morrow.

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.

Acquire Riches By Industry And Frugality.

To Be Humble To Superiors Is A Duty, To Equals Courtesy, To Inferiors Nobleness.

Pride Breakfasted With Plenty, Dined With Poverty, And Supped With Infamy.

Early To Bed And Early To Rise Makes A Man Healthy, Wealthy And Wise.

Don't Think So Much Of Your Own Cunning, As To Forget Other Men's; A Cunning Man Is Overmatched By A Cunning Man And A Half.

Let Honesty Be As The Breath Of Thy Soul; Then Shalt Thou Reach The Point Of Happiness, And Independence Shall Be Thy Shield And Buckler, Thy Helmet And Crown; Then Shall Thy Soul Walk Upright, Nor Stoop To The Silken Wretch Because He Hath Riches, Nor Pocket An Abuse Because The Hand Which Offers It Wears A Ring Set With Diamonds.

He That Displays Too Often His Wife And His Wallet Is In Danger Of Having Both Of Them Borrowed.

I Believe There Is One Supreme Most Perfect Being. [...] I Believe He Is Pleased And Delights In The Happiness Of Those He Has Created; And Since Without Virtue Man Can Have No Happiness In This World, I Firmly Believe He Delights To See Me Virtuous.

I Think With You, That Nothing Is Of More Importance For The Public Weal, Than To Form And Train Up Youth In Wisdom And Virtue. Wise And Good Men Are In My Opinion, The Strength Of The State; More So Than Riches Or Arms.

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

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

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

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

In The Dark, All Cats Are Grey.

When You Are Done Changing, You're Done.

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.

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.

Marry Your Son When You Will, But You Daughter When You Can.

To Lengthen Thy Life, Lessen Thy Meals.

When A Religion Is Good, I Conceive It Will Support Itself; And When It Does Not Support Itself, And God Does Not Take Care To Support It So That Its Professors Are Obliged To Call For Help Of The Civil Power, 'tis A Sign, I Apprehend, Of Its Being A Bad One.

Do Not Anticipate Trouble, Or Worry About What May Never Happen. Keep In The Sunlight.

He That Steals The Old Man's Supper Does Him No Wrong.

What Is Best For People Is What They Do For Themselves.

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

Virtues, Of ... Moderation: Avoid Extremes. Forbear Resenting Injuries So Much As You Think They Deserve.

[e]very Man Who Comes Among Us, And Takes Up A Piece Of Land, Becomes A Citizen, And By Our Constitution Has A Voice In Elections, And A Share In The Government Of The Country.

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

Patience In Market, Is Worth Pounds In A Year.

Cheese And Salt Meat, Should Be Sparingly Eat.

The Expenses Required To Prevent A War Are Much Lighter Than Those That Will, If Not Prevented, Be Absolutely Necessary To Maintain It.

Genius Is Nothing But A Greater Aptitude For Patience.

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

It Is Much To Be Lamented That A Man Of Franklin's General Good Character And Great Influence Should Have Been An Unbeliever In Christianity, And Also Have Done As Much As He Did To Make Others Unbelievers.

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.

The Best Investment Is In The Tools Of One's Own Trade.

Doing An Injury Puts You Below Your Enemy; Revenging One Make You But Even With Him; Forgiving It Sets You Above Him.

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

[t]he More Public Provisions Were Made For The Poor, The Less They Provided For Themselves, And Of Course Became Poorer . . . [taking] Away From Before Their Eyes The Greatest Of All Inducements To Industry, Frugality, And Sobriety, By Giving Them A Dependence Of Somewhat Else Than A Careful Accumulation During Youth And Health For Support In Age And Sickness.

Lighthouses Are More Helpful Than Churches.

Speak And Speed: The Close Mouth Catches No Flies.

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.

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

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

After Getting The First Hundred Pounds, It Is More Easy To Get The Second.

The Art Of Acting Consists In Keeping People From Coughing.

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

He That Pays For Work Before It's Done, Has But A Pennyworth For Two Pence.

Dangerous, Therefore, Is It To Take Shelter Under A Tree, During A Thunder-gust. It Has Been Fatal To Many, Both Men And Beasts.

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

Those Who Give Up Liberty For The Sake Of Security, Deserve Neither Liberty Nor Security.

The Busy Man Has Few Idle Visitors; To The Boiling Pot The Flies Come Not.

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

There Was Great Difference In Persons; And Discretion Did Not Always Accompany Years, Nor Was Youth Always Without It.

Who Had Deceived Thee So Often As Thyself?

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

It Is The Religion Of Ignorance That Tyranny Begins.

Tyranny Founding Fathers

If Any Form Of Government Is Capable Of Making A Nation Happy, Ours I Think Bids Fair Now For Producing That Effect. But After All Much Depends Upon The People Who Are Governed.

To Cease To Think Creatively Is To Cease To Live

Sarcasm Is The Lowest Form Of Humor But The Highest Form Of Flattery.

A Light Purse Is A Heavy Curse.

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

Death Is A Fisherman, The World We See His Fish-pond Is, And We The Fishes Be; His Net Some General Sickness; Howe'er He Is Not So Kind As Other Fishers Be; For If They Take One Of The Smaller Fry, They Throw Him In Again, He Shall Not Die: But Death Is Sure To Kill All He Can Get, And All Is Fish With Him That Comes To Net.

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The Constitution Only Guarantees The American People The Right To Pursue Happiness. You Have To Catch It Yourself.

Saying And Doing, Have Quarrel'd And Parted.

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Whoever Shall Introduce Into Public Affairs The Principles Of Primitive Christianity Will Change The Face Of The World.

Eyes And Priests Bear No Jests.

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Keep Conscience Clear, Then Never Fear.

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I Am On This Account Not Displeased That The Figure Is Not Known As A Bald Eagle, But Looks More Like A Turkey. For The Truth The Turkey Is In Comparison A Much More Respectable Bird, And Withal A True Original Native Of America... He Is Besides, Though A Little Vain & Silly, A Bird Of Courage, And Would Not Hesitate To Attack A Grenadier Of The British Guards Who Should Presume To Invade His Farm Yard With A Red Coat On.

Nothing Is More Fatal To Health Than An Over Care Of It.

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

An Investment In Knowledge Pays The Best Interest.

The Electrical Matter Consists Of Particles Extremely Subtile, Since It Can Permeate Common Matter, Even The Densest Metals, With Such Ease And Freedom As Not To Receive Any Perceptible Resistance.

Eat To Please Thyself, But Dress To Please Others.

Reader, I Wish Thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And May Kind Heaven Thy Year's Industry Bless.

Genius Without Education Is Like Silver In The Mine.

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

A Man Compounded Of Law And Gospel Is Able To Cheat A Whole Country With His Religion And Then Destroy Them Under Color Of Law

Money Makes Money. And The Money That Makes Money Makes More Money.

Beware Of The Young Doctor And The Old Barber.

Men's Minds Do Not Die With Their Bodies But Are Made More Happy Or Miserable After This Life According To Their Actions.

When You Get Into A Tight Place And Everything Goes Against You, Till It Seems As Though You Could Not Hold On A Minute Longer, Never Give Up Then, For That Is Just The Place And Time That The Tide Will Turn. When You're Down To Nothing, God Is Up To Something. The Faithful See The Invisible, Believe The Incredible And Then Receive The Impossible. Where Liberty Dwells There Is My Country.

If You Ride A Horse, Sit Close And Tight, If You Ride A Man, Sit Easy And Light.

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

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

Here Comes The Orator With His Flood Of Words And His Drop Of Reason.

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Experience Is The Best Teacher, But A Fool Will Learn From No Other.

In Every Animal That Walks Upright, The Deficiency Of The Fluids That Fill The Muscles Appears First In The Highest Part: The Face First Grows Lank And Wrinkled; Then The Neck; Then The Breast And Arms; The Lower Parts Continuing To The Last As Plump As Ever; So That Covering All Above With A Basket, And Regarding Only What Is Below The Girdle, It Is Impossible Of Two Women To Know An Old From A Young One.

Righteousness, Or Justice, Is, Undoubtedly Of All The Virtues, The Surest Foundation On Which To Create And Establish A New State. But There Are Two Nobler Virtues, Industry And Frugality, Which Tend More To Increase The Wealth, Power And Grandeur Of The Community, Than All The Others Without Them.

Industry Need Not Wish, And He That Lives Upon Hopes Will Die Fasting. There Are No Gains Without Pains. He That Hath A Trade Hath An Estate, And He That Hath A Calling Hath An Office Of Profit And Honor; But Then The Trade Must Be Worked At And The Calling Followed, Or Neither The Estate Nor The Office Will Enable Us To Pay Our Taxes. If We Are Industrious, We Shall Never Starve; For At The Workingman's House Hunger Looks In, But Dares Not Enter. Nor Will The Bailiff Or The Constable Enter, For Industry Pays Debts, While Idleness And Neglect Increase Them.

Great Talkers Should Be Cropt, For They've No Need Of Ears.

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

Be Not Niggardly Of What Costs Thee Nothing, As Courtesy, Counsel, & Countenance.

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

If Pride Leads The Van, Beggary Brings Up The Rear.

Fear Not Death; For The Sooner We Die, The Longer Shall We Be Immortal.

The Best Doctor Gives The Least Medicines.

He That Speaks Much, Is Much Mistaken.

Most Fools Think They Are Only Ignorant.

Approve Not Of Him Who Commends All You Say.

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.

In Rivers And Bad Governments The Lightest Things Swim At Top.

Don't You Know, That All Wives Are In The Right? It May Be You Don't, For You Are Yet A Young Husband.

Take Counsel In Wine, But Resolve Afterwards In Water.

Covetousness Is Ever Attended With Solicitude And Anxiety.

The Borrower Is A Slave To The Lender And The Debtor To The Creditor.

The Best Tranquilizer Is A Clear Conscience.

Clear Conscience

We Must Not In The Course Of Public Life Expect Immediate Approbation And Immediate Grateful Acknowledgment Of Our Services. But Let Us Persevere Through Abuse And Even Injury. The Internal Satisfaction Of A Good Conscience Is Always Present, And Time Will Do Us Justice In The Minds Of The People, Even Those At Present The Most Prejudiced Against Us.

The Church, The State, And The Poor, Are 3 Daughters Which We Should Maintain, But Not Portion Off.

If You Would Persuade, You Must Appeal To Interest Rather Than Intellect.

Contentment Makes A Poor Person Rich And Discontent Makes A Rich Person Poor.

Neglect Kills Injuries, Revenge Increases Them.

Where There Is Hunger, Law Is Not Regarded; And Where Law Is Not Regarded, There Will Be Hunger.

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

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

He That Has Done You A Kindness Will Be More Ready To Do You Another, Than He Whom You Yourself Have Obliged.

Pain Wastes The Body, Pleasures The Understanding.

Nine Men In Ten Are Suicides.

Doing Your Best Means Never Stop Trying.

The Golden Age Was Never The Present Age.

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.

Mary's Mouth Cost Her Nothing For She Never Opens It But At Others' Expense.

Better Is Little With The Fear Of The Lord, Than Great Treasure, And Trouble Therewith.

Women Are Books, And Men The Readers Be.

Some Are Weatherwise, Some Are Otherwise.

He That Goes A Borrowing Goes A Sorrowing.

Debt By Founding Fathers

I Am About Courting A Girl I Have Had But Little Acquaintance With. How Shall I Come To A Knowledge Of Her Faults, And Whether She Has The Virtues I Imagine She Has? Answer. Commend Her Among Her Female Acquaintances.

Experience Keeps A Dear School, But Fools Will Learn In No Other.

Nothing's So Apt To Undermine Your Confidence In A Product As Knowing That The Commercial Selling It Has Been Approved By The Company That Makes It.

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

Handle Your Tools Without Mittens.

But Our Great Security Lies, I Think, In Our Growing Strength.

Philosophy As Well As Foppery Often Changes Fashion.

The Way To Be Safe Is Never To Be Secure.

Despair Ruins Some, Presumption Many.

It Takes Many Good Deeds To Build A Good Reputation, And Only One Bad One To Lose It.

If By The Liberty Of The Press Were Understood Merely The Liberty Of Discussing The Propriety Of Public Measures And Political Opinions, Let Us Have As Much Of It As You Please: But If It Means The Liberty Of Affronting, Calumniating And Defaming One Another, I, For My Part, Own Myself Willing To Part With My Share Of It, Whenever Our Legislators Shall Please So To Alter The Law And Shall Chearfully Consent To Exchange My Liberty Of Abusing Others For The Privilege Of Not Being Abused Myself.

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Those Who Prefer Security To Liberty Deserve Neither.

Marriage Is The Most Natural State Of Man, And Therefore The State In Which One Is Most Likely To Find Solid Happiness.

There Never Was A Truly Great Man That Was Not At The Same Time Truly Virtuous.

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.

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As Pride Increases, Fortune Declines.

If You Would Not Be Forgotten, Do Things Worth Remembering.

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

He That Cannot Obey, Cannot Command.

What's A Sun-dial In The Shade?

Can Anything Be Constant In A World Which Is Eternally Changing?

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.

Write With The Learned, Pronounce With The Vulgar.

When In Doubt, Don't.

Overcoming Doubt

Strict Punctuality Is A Cheap Virtue.

Your Argument Is Sound, Nothing But Sound.

A Spoonful Of Honey Will Catch More Flies Than A Gallon Of Vinegar.

Diligence Is The Mother Of Good Luck.

I Fear The Man Who Drinks Water And So Remembers This Morning What The Rest Of Us Said Last Night

Don't Go To The Doctor With Every Distemper, Nor To The Lawyer With Every Quarrel, Nor To The Pot For Every Thirst.

Your Best Investment Is To Pour Your Purse Into Your Head, And No One Can Take It Away From You.

What Can Laws Do Without Morals?

Bargaining Has Neither Friends Nor Relations.

There Are More Old Drunkards Than Old Doctors.

Watch The Pennies And The Dollars Will Take Care Of Themselves.

For The Best Return On Your Money, Pour Your Purse Into Your Head.

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.

Pardoning The Bad, Is Injuring The Good.

Masonic Ideas Are The Precious Jewels Of Speculative Masons; The Should Be Kept Bright And Sparkling For All The Brethren To See And To Admire. As Such, They Should Be The Special Care Of Masonic Leaders Particularly Those Who Teach And Interpret The Philosophy Of Freemasonry.

Fear To Do Ill, And You Need Fear Else.

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

When Befriended, Remember It; When You Befriend, Forget It.

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

After Three Days Men Grow Weary, Of A Wench, A Guest, And Weather Rainy.

Beer Is Proof That God Wants Us To Be Happy

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