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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. - [Life] Lighthouses are more helpful than churches. - [Churches] Little boats should keep near shore. - [Ships] Love well, whip well. - [Love] Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults. - [Enemies] Man is a tool making animal. - [Man] Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition. - [Cowards] Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it. - [Religion] Men and melons are hard to know. - [Understanding] Mine is better than ours. - [Property] Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it: "Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith." - [Money] Necessity has no law. - [Necessity] Necessity never made a good bargain. - [Necessity] No better relation than a prudent and faithful friend. - [Friends] No nation was ever ruined by trade. - [Trade] None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing. - [Example] Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. - [Quotations] Nothing is certain but death and taxes. - [Proverbs] One to-day is worth two to-morrows. - [Today] Opportunity is the great bawd. - [Opportunity] Our necessities never equal our wants. - [Necessity] Pity and forbearance should characterize all acts of justice. - [Justice] Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright. - [Poverty] Practice makes perfect. - [Practice] Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. - [Pride] Displaying page 6 of 11 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 [6] 7 8 9 10 11
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