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Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it. - [Fools] Fraud and deceit are ever in a hurry. Take time for all things. Great haste makes great waste. - [Haste] Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live expense is constant and certain; and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. - [Economy] Genius without education is like silver in the mine. - [Genius] God governs in the affairs of men; and if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, neither can a kingdom rise without His aid. - [God] God helps them that help themselves. - [Self-help] Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue. - [Virtue] He may well win the race that runs by himself. - [Competition] He that blows the coals in quarrels he has nothing to do with has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. - [Quarrels] He that can have patience can have what he will. - [Patience] He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed. - [Display] He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. - [Self-love] He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees. - [Trade] He that lives upon hopes will die fasting. - [Hope] He that riseth late must tread all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night. - [Delay] He that takes a wife takes care. - [Matrimony] He that's secure is not safe. - [Safety] He who multiplies riches, multiplies cares. - [Wealth] He'll cheat without scruple, who can without fear. - [Cheating] Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her. - [Reason] Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and the moon to sand still--and they obeyed. - toast made at the close of a banquet in England (see Englishman's and Frenchman's toasts) [Toasts] Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? - [Proverbs] How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. - [Courage] Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day. - [Felicity] I am lord of myself, accountable to none. - [Independence] Displaying page 3 of 11 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
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