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¶ Beware of him that is slow to anger: He is angry for something, and will not be pleased for nothing.

¶ Pay what you owe, and you'll know what is your own.

¶ Thirst after desert-not reward.

¶ Who says Jack is not generous? He is always fond of giving, and cares not for receiving—what?—why, advice.

¶ Let our fathers and grandfathers be valued for their goodness, ourselves for our own.

Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.

Nor is a duty beneficial because it is commanded, but it is commanded because it is beneficial.

¶ Industry need not wish.

An empty bag can not stand upright.

¶ Happy that nation, fortunate that age, whose history is not diverting.

¶ Tricks and treachery are the practise of fools that have not wit enough to be honest.

¶ When knaves betray each other, one can be blamed or the other pitied.

¶ Fools need advice most, but Wise Men only are the better for it.

¶ None are deceived but those that confide.

¶ Great Modesty often hides Great Merit.

¶ Pride gets into the Coach, and Shame mounts behind.

¶ Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom, but Babbling is ever a Folly.

You may delay, but Time will not.

¶ Virtue may always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly.

¶ Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate.

¶ Content is the Philosopher's Stone, that turns all it touches into gold.

¶ In a corrupt Age, the putting the world in order would breed Confusion; then e'en mind your own Business.

¶ The first Mistake in Public Business is the going into it.

¶ The morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your candle.

¶ It is a certain position in law that allegiance and protection are reciprocal, the one ceasing when the other is withdrawn de

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

¶ He that complains has too much.

¶ Half the Truth is often a great Lie.

¶ He that 's content hath enough.

¶ Good-Will, like the Wind, floweth where it listeth.

Death takes no bribes.

¶ Men often mistake themselves, seldom forget themselves

¶ The Idle Man is the Devil's Hireling, whose Livery is Rags, whose Diet and Wages are Famine and Diseases.

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N time, perhaps, mankind may be wise enough to let trade take its own course, find its own channels, and regulate its own proportions, etc. At present, most of the edicts of princes, placærts, laws and ordinances of kingdoms and States for the purpose prove political blunders, the advantages they produce not being general for the Commonwealth, but particular to private persons or bodies in the State who procure them, and at the expense of the rest of the people.

JOIN with you most cordially in rejoicing at the return of peace. I hope that it will be lasting, and that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for, in my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility! What an extension of agriculture, even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads and other public works, edifices and improvements, rendering England a complete paradise, might have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief; in bringing misery to thousands of families, and destroying the lives of so many thousands of working people, who might have performed the useful labor.

¶ It were to be wished that commerce were as free between all nations of the world as it is between the several counties of England: so would all by mutual communication obtain more enjoyment. These counties do not ruin one another by trade; neither would the nations.

Let us be attentive to these (our natural advantages) and then the power of rivals, with all their restraining and prohibiting acts, can not much hurt us. We are sons of the earth and seas, and the touch of our parents will communicate to us fresh strength and vigor to renew the contest Ꮽe ᏭᏛ

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T is not enough that honest men are appointed judges. All know the influence of interest on the mind of man, and how unconsciously his judgment is warped by that influence. To this bias add that of the esprit de corps, of their peculiar maxim and creed, that "it is the office of a good judge to enlarge his jurisdiction," and the absence of responsibility; and how much can we expect in impartial decisions between the General Government, of which they are themselves so eminent a part, and an individual State, from which they have nothing to hope or fear? We have seen, too, that, contrary to all correct example, they are in the habit of going out of the question before them, to throw an anchor ahead, and grapple further hold for future advances of power. They are then, in fact, the corps of sappers and miners, steadily working to undermine the independent rights of the States, and to consolidate all power in the hands of that government in which they have so important a freehold estate. But it is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers, but by their distri

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