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He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Topic: Excuses
Source: None
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The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
Topic: Eye
Source: None
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He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
Topic: Family
Source: None
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Fatigue is the best pillow.
Topic: Fatigue
Source: None
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A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
Topic: Fault
Source: None
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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Topic: Fools
Source: None
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Sin is not harmful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is harmful.
Topic: Forbidden
Source: None
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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.
Topic: Fortune
Source: None
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He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
Topic: Fortune
Source: None
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Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Topic: Genius
Source: None
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In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Topic: Glutton
Source: None
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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
Topic: Glutton
Source: None
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In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Topic: Gluttony
Source: None
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Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Topic: Government
Source: None
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Fish and visitors stink after three days.
Topic: Guests
Source: None
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Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought to make the worst man good.
Topic: Habit
Source: None
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Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Topic: Health
Source: None
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God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.
Topic: Health
Source: None
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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart. -Benjamin Franklin.
Topic: Heart-quotes
Source: None
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At the working man's house hunger looks in but dares not enter.
Topic: Hunger
Source: None
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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Topic: Hunger
Source: None
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Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
Topic: Idleness
Source: None
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A fat kitchen, a lean will.
Topic: Kitchen
Source: None
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He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.
Topic: Labor
Source: None
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The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearne, but it is still nonsense.
Topic: Language
Source: None
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God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
Topic: Lawyers
Source: None
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Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
Topic: Laziness
Source: None
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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things.
Topic: Laziness
Source: None
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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
Topic: Leisure
Source: None
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Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
Topic: Leisure
Source: None
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The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of
industry and economy.
Topic: Liberty
Source: in correspondence
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Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Topic: Liberty
Source: motto to Historical Review of Pennsylvania
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Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
Topic: Liberty
Source: motto to Historical Review of Pennsylvania
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Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Topic: Liberty
Source: None
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Where liberty is, there is my country.
Topic: Liberty
Source: None
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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.
Topic: Life
Source: None
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He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Topic: Love
Source: None
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He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Topic: Love
Source: None
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Half the truth is often a great lie.
Topic: Lying
Source: None
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Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
Topic: Manners
Source: None
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Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Topic: Marriage
Source: None
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He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.
Topic: Medicine
Source: None
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God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
Topic: Medicine
Source: None
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A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
Topic: Men and Women
Source: None
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If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living,
all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his
fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the
sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much
for your whistle.
Topic: Misers
Source: The Whistle
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Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
Topic: Moderation
Source: None
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If you'd know the value of money, go and borrow some.
Topic: Money
Source: None
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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.
Topic: Money
Source: None
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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Topic: Money
Source: None
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Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Topic: Mottoes
Source: motto to Historical Review of Pennsylvania
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