When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
If a man could half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
Vice knows that she is ugly, so she puts on her mask.
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
As often as we do good, we sacrifice.
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
A dying man can do nothing easy.
Eat not to dullness drink not to elevation.
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Marry your Daughter and eat fresh Fish betimes.
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.
None are deceived but they that confide.
Wish a miser long life, and you wish him no good.
Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil so shalt thou always live jollity for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
If we do not hang together, we will all hang separately.
A false friend and a shadow stay around only while the sun shines.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Idleness is the greatest Prodigality.
Content and Riches seldom meet together, Riches take thou, contentment I had rather.
A good Wife Health, is a Man's best Wealth.
Kill no more pigeons than you can eat.
I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that he is even infinitely above it.
He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.
When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
When knaves fall out, honest men get their goods when priests dispute, we come at the truth
Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature.
Fish and visitors smell in three days.
Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Remember, that six pounds a year is but a groat a day.
The longer I live the more convinced I become that God governs in the affairs of men. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend Or do we imagine we no longer need His assistance.
Search others for virtues, thyself for thy vices.
A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.
Rain or Snow, To Chili go, You'll find it so, For ought we know.Time will show.
All Mankind are beholden to him that is kind to the Good.
A place for everything, everything in its place.
If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas.
Clean your finger before you point at my spots.
There are more old drunkards than old doctors.
A little house well filled, A little field well tilled, And a little wife well willed, Are great riches.
Don't go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst
No workman without tools, Nor Lawyer without Fools, Can live by their Rules.
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.
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© 2020 Inspirational Stories