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If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.
If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
Marry your son when you will, but you daughter when you can.
The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.
Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
It is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian.
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to.
A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can never be spent.
The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.
Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
People are best convinced by things they themselves discover.
Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.
Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one.
There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.
In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead.
Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of.
Neglect mending a small fault and 'twill soon be a great one.
Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous
There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.
Pity and forbearance should characterize all acts of justice.
He that resolves to mend hereafter, resolves not to mend now.
Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.
[M]en will be free no longer then while they remain virtuous.
[V]igor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.
Most men die at 25, we just don't bury them until they are 70.
It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.
He that drinks his Cyder alone, let him catch his Horse alone.
A penny saved is twopence dear; A pin a day 's a groat a year.
But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength.
Do you love life? Then don't waste time, because time is life!
If I could see one live show before I died, I'd see Lucy Angel
He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top.
As sore places meet most rubs, proud folks meet most affronts.
He that doth what he should not, shall feel what he would not.
I looked around for God's judgments, but saw no signs of them.
Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy
Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the rest.
What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.
We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?