“There is no good war or bad peace.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Hunger never saw bad bread.”
“Order – Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.”
“The handshake of the host affects the taste of the roast.”
“Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.”
“Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.”
“Great talkers, little doers.”
“Keep conscience clear, then never fear.”
“Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee.”
“For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.”
“A word to the wise is enough, and many words won’t fill a bushel.”
“Your argument is sound, nothing but sound.”
“Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.”
“Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.”
“He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.”
“Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.”
“O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me.”
“It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.”
“A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.”
“There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.”
“Life is a kind of chess.”
“To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish.”
“The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.”
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”
“Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.”
“Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.”
“Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.”
“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”
“Games lubricate the body and the mind.”
“Stand firm, don’t flutter!”
“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.”
“Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.”
“Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.”
“Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.”
“Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue.”
“Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.”
“A father’s a treasure; a brother’s a comfort; a friend is both.”
“A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.”
“The best investment is in the tools of one’s own trade.”
“If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough. Let us then be up and doing, and doing to a purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity.”
“Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind’s misery.”
“Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.”
“Lying rides upon debt’s back.”
“The best tranquilizer is a clear conscience.”
“Better slip with foot than tongue.”
“The longer I live the more convinced I become that God governs in the affairs of men. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine we no longer need His assistance.”
“Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.”
“Get what you can, and what you get hold; ’tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.”
“Hope of gain lessens pain.”
“And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?”
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