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Genius is the ability to hold one's vision steady until it becomes reality
I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.
A bargain is something you have to find a use for once you have bought it.
Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great
After getting the first hundred pounds, it is more easy to get the second.
God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.
Be cheerful -- the problems that worry us most are those that never arrive.
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking.
He gives twice that gives soon, i.e., he will soon be called to give again.
Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another.
He that pays for work before it's done, has but a pennyworth for two pence.
Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
Anyone willing to give up liberty in exchange for security deserves neither.
If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.
Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither.
If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery.
The exact Quantity and Quality being found out, is to be kept to constantly.
Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.
Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed.
Mary's mouth cost her nothing for she never opens it but at others' expense.
When Knaves betray each other, one can scarce be blamed or the other pitied.
Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.
If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again; tho' he were my best Friend.
He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go.
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
Christianity commands us to pass by injuries; policy, to let them pass by us.
The nearest I can make it out, "Love your Enemies" means, "Hate your Friends"
To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.
Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor.
Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth.
Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.
If you have a bald head don't walk out in the sun because you will get burned.
Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife.
If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?
The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit.
Common sense without education, is better than education without common sense.
Is there anything men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.