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Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.
Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.
Good words cool more than cold water.
A spaniel, a woman, and a walnut tree, the more they're beaten the better they be.
Wedlock is a padlock.
A talkative person runs himself upon great inconvenience by blabbing out his own and others' secrets.
Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.
Misery loves company.
My personal credo as a libertarian conservative: I think all attempts to reform your fellow-citizens or tell them how to live their lives are arrogant and tyrannical. THAT'S why I oppose Leftism. I want people to be free to manage their own lives. Reform is just authoritarianism. People are not playthings for anybody's theories or obsessions.
They love too much that die for love.
Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.
Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
Never meet trouble half-way.
If the first of July be rainy weather, It will rain, more of less, for four weeks together.
Fish must swim thrice--once is the water, a second time in the sauce, and a third time in wine in the stomach.
In a calm sea every man is a pilot.
He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain.
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.
A wonder then it must needs be,-that there should be any Man found so stupid and forsaken of reason as to persuade himself, that this most beautiful and adorned world was or could be produced by the fortuitous concourse of atoms.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
I love thee like puddings; if thou wert pie I'd eat thee.
In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.
Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.
A joy that's shared is a joy made double.
He is wise that can make a friend of a foe.
There is no doubt, that man is not built to be a carnivorous animal. What a sweet, pleasing and innocent sight is the spectacle of a table served that way and what a difference to a make up of fuming animal meat, slaughtered and dead! Man in no way has the constitution of a carnivorous being. Hunt and voracity are unnatural to him. Man has neither the sharp pointed teeth or claws to slaughter his prey. On the contrary his hands are made to pick fruits, berries and vegetables and teeth appropriate to chew them.
The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies.
Money was made for the free-hearted and generous.
Manners make often fortunes.
The honester the man, the worse luck.
Where love fails we espy all faults.
Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.
The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation.
To those we love best we say the least
Global warming has taken the place of Communism as an absurdity that 'liberals' will defend to the death regardless of the evidence showing its folly.
An ass is beautiful to an ass, and a pig is beautiful to a pig.
The younger brother hath the more wit.
Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.
Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.
Every animal is providentially directed to the use of its proper weapon.
Every man praises his own wares.
He who pays the piper can call the tunes.
A multitude of words doth rather obscure than illustrate, they being a burden to the memory, and the first apt to be forgotten, before we come to the last. So that he that uses many words for the explaining of any subject, doth, like the cuttle-fish, hide himself, for the most part, in his own ink.
He that cannot abide a bad market, deserves not a good one
If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.
The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window.
The wind in a man's face makes him wise.
Spend and be free, but make no waste.
Better the last smile than the first laughter.
Feather by feather the goose is plucked.
Children pick up words as pigeons peas And utter them again as God shall please.
Lean liberty is better than fat slavery
He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.
Guilt is always jealous
The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another
Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.
The more you rub a cat on the rump, the higher she sets her tail.
Diseases are the tax on pleasures.
He that counts all cost will never put plough in the earth.
Who depends on another man's table often dines late.
The Democratic Party: Con-men elected by the ignorant and the arrogant.
To go like a cat upon a hot bakestone.
They that make laws must not break them.
There is for a free man no occupation more worthy and delightful than to contemplate the beauteous works of nature and honor the infinite wisdom and goodness of God.
Man does what he can, and God what he will.
The use of butterflies is to adorn the world and delight the eyes of men, to brighten the countryside, serving like so many golden spangles to decorate the fields.
Though thou has never so many counselors, yet do not forsake the counsel of your soul.
A light-heel'd mother makes a heavy-heel'd daughter.
Little children, little sorrows; big children, big sorrows.
That which is evil is soon learned.
He that buys land buys many stones, He that buys flesh buys many bones, He that buys eggs buys many shells, But he that buys good ale buys nothing else.
A maid that laughs is half taken.
It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his counselor.
When friends meet, hearts warm.
The tree falls not at the first stroke.
One means very effectual for the preservation of health is a quiet and cheerful mind, not afflicted with violent passions or distracted with immoderate cares.
A pound of worry won't pay an ounce of debt.
After a Christmas comes a Lent.
A child may have too much of his mother's blessing.
Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.
Adversity makes men wise but not rich.
Many without punishment, none without sin.

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