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It is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian.
Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition.
The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.
If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to.
He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others
A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can never be spent.
Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.
The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty
Marry your son when you will, but you daughter when you can.
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.
Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.
Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of.
A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.
People are best convinced by things they themselves discover.
Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one.
Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous
Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.
There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.
There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.
Pity and forbearance should characterize all acts of justice.
In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead.
He that resolves to mend hereafter, resolves not to mend now.
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
Neglect mending a small fault and 'twill soon be a great one.
Most men die at 25, we just don't bury them until they are 70.
Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the rest.
But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength.
Do you love life? Then don't waste time, because time is life!
What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.
If I could see one live show before I died, I'd see Lucy Angel
It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.
As sore places meet most rubs, proud folks meet most affronts.
He that doth what he should not, shall feel what he would not.
He that drinks his Cyder alone, let him catch his Horse alone.
I looked around for God's judgments, but saw no signs of them.
Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy
He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top.
A penny saved is twopence dear; A pin a day 's a groat a year.
God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.