¶ Wealth and Content are not always Bedfellows. Wise men learn by others' harms; Fools by their own.

¶ Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

¶ Great spenders are bad lenders.

¶ Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.

¶ Words may show a man's Wit, but Actions his meaning.

¶ Content makes poor men rich; Discontent makes rich men poor.

¶ Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask.

¶ Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff Life is made of.

¶ Good sense is a thing all need, few have, and none think they want.

¶ A light purse is a heavy curse.

¶ Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge o

¶A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things.

What's proper is becoming: see the Blacksmith with his white silk apron!

Take courage, Mortal! Death can't banish thee out of the universe.

¶ The sting of a reproach is the Truth of it.

¶ If Jack's in love, he 's no judge of Jill's Beauty.

¶ Mad kings and mad bulls are not to be held by treaties and packthread.

¶ Do me the favor to deny me at once.

¶ A true great man will neither trample on a worm nor sneak to an Emperor.

¶ Half-hospitality opens his Door and shuts up his countenance Do

¶ Strive to be the greatest man in your country, and you may be disappointed; strive to be the best and you may succeed: he may well win the race that runs by himself.

¶ Time enough always proves little enough.

¶ Gifts burst rocks.

¶ He that by the Plow would thrive, himself must either hold or drive.

¶ Life with fools consists in Drinking; with the wise man, Living's Thinking.

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hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

¶ A Mob's a Monster; Heads enough, but no Brains.

¶ The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine

¶ Pardoning the Bad is injuring the Good.

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HEN men are employed, they are best contented; for on the days they work, they are good-natured and cheerful, and, with the consciousness of having done a good day's work, they spend the evening jollily; but on idle days they are mutinous and quarrelsome, finding fault with their pork, the bread, etc., and in continual ill-humor, which puts me in mind of a sea-captain, whose rule it was to keep his men constantly at work; and, when his mate once told him that they had done everything, and there was nothing further to employ them about, “Oh,” said he, make them scour the anchor."

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IN order to secure my credit and character as a tradesman, I took care not only to be in reality industrious and frugal, but to avoid all appearances to the contrary. I dressed plainly; I was seen at no places of idle diversion. I never went out a-fishing or shooting; a book indeed sometimes debauched me from my work, but that was seldom,

snug, and gave no scandal; and, to show that I was not above my business, I sometimes brought home the paper I purchased at the stores through the streets on a wheelbarrow. Thus being esteemed an industrious, thriving young man, and paying duly for what I bought, the merchants who imported stationery solicited my custom; others proposed supplying me with books, and I went on swimmingly

¶ It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal it.

¶ He that can have patience can have what he will.

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¶ None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

¶'T is easy to see, hard to foresee.

¶ In a discreet man's mouth a public thing is private.

¶ Bargaining has neither friends nor relations.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

¶ He that has neither fools nor beggars among his kindred is the son of thunder-gust.

¶ There's more old drunkards than old doctors.

The good paymaster is lord of another man's purse.

¶ Diligence is the mother of good luck.

¶ Do not do that which you would not have known

¶ A man is never so ridiculous by those qualities that are his own as by those that he affects to have.

It is better to take many injuries than to give one.

¶ Deny self for self's sake.

You may give a man an office, but you can not give him discretion

¶ When reason preaches, if you don't hear she'll box your ears.

¶ Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.

¶ He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.

¶ Don't value a man for the quality he is made of, but for the qualities he possesses.