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Job others,
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
Never take a wife till thou hast a house(and a fire) to put her in.
In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Ohne Gedankenfreiheit gibt es keine Weisheit. Und ohne Redefreiheit keine
Never confuse Motion with Action.
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.
If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error. And by such a manner, you can seldom hope to recommend yourself in pleasing your hearers, or to persuade those whose concurrence you desire. Pope says, judiciously:
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
Nine men in ten are suicides.
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Tell me & I forget. Teach me & I may remember. Involve me & I learn.
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.
Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.
Those who trade liberty for security, deserve neither.
Those who sacrifice their liberties for security deserve neither.
In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves if a child died under it; my example showing that the regret may be the same either way, and that, therefore, the safer should be chosen.
Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
He that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else.
Critics are our friends, they show us our faults.
It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.
After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.
He that can have patience can have what he will.
Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.
How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!
A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned
I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such: because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no Form of Government but what may be a Blessing to the People if well-administred; and I believe farther that this is likely to be well administred for a Course of Years and can only end in Despotism as other Forms have done before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other.
You may delay, but time will not.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!
Hide not your talents, they for use were made, What's a sundial in the shade ?
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
If Passion drives, let Reason hold the Reins.
We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.
To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
If you love life, don't waste time, because time is what life is made of.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
In all your Amours you should prefer old Women to young ones. You call this a Paradox, and demand my Reasons. They are these: 1. Because as they have more Knowledge of the World and their Minds are better stor
Somebody, it seemed, gave it out that I loved ladies; and then everybody presented me their ladies (or the ladies presented themselves) to be embraced, that is to have their necks kissed...The French ladies had a thousand other ways of rendering themselves agreeable by their various attentions and civilities, and their sensible conversation. Tis a delightful people to live with.
We Must Indeed All Hang Together, Or Most Assuredly, We Shall All Hang Separately.
Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do today.
Read much, but not many books.
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