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Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.
One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.
Thou can'st not joke an enemy into a friend, but thou may'st a friend into an enemy.
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.
Visit your Aunt, but not every Day; and call at your Brother's, but not every night.
No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.
Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
Content and Riches seldom meet together, Riches take thou, contentment I had rather.
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.
When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own.
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.
Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
Some men grow mad by studying much to know, But who grows mad by studying good to grow.
Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.
Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one.
The key that unlocks a door is a key to keep if you want to go through that door again.
Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security.
Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.
The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
If you wou'd have Guests merry with your cheer, Be so your self, or so at least appear.
If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?
You will discover 3 trustworthy mates, an aged wife, an aged canine, and ready dollars.
Some make Conscience of wearing a Hat in the Church, who make none of robbing the Altar.
I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil.
Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.
Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.
Kings have long arms, but Misfortune longer: let none think themselves out of her reach.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it.
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.
He that is rich need not live sparingly, and he that can live sparingly need not be rich.
Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
Those who give up liberty for the sake of security, deserve neither liberty nor security.
Strive to be the best and you may succeed: he may well win the race that runs by himself.
In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.
I think that humanity brings much misery on itself by the false value they put on things.
Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.