The doors to wisdom are never shut.
He that lieth down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Glass, china and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended.
He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.
He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.
He that can have patience can have what he will.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?
I am in the prime of senility.
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
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.
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Who is wise? He that learns from every One.
Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions.
Who is rich? He that is content.
Who is that? Nobody.
You may delay, but time will not.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Wish not so much to live long as to live well.
Applause waits on success.
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
When in doubt, don't.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
A small leak can sink a great ship.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Never confuse motion with action.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Lost time is never found again.
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.
Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you will be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrow's; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
The man who achieves makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all - doing nothing.
Life is a kind of Chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effect of prudence, or the want of it. By playing at Chess then, we may learn: 1st, Foresight, which looks a little into futurity, and considers the consequences that may attend an action ... 2nd, Circumspection, which surveys the whole Chess-board, or scene of action: - the relation of the several Pieces, and their situations; ... 3rd, Caution, not to make our moves too hastily...
Look before, or you'll find yourself behind.
TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
ORDER. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
RESOLUTION. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
FRUGALITY. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing.
INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
JUSTICE. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
MODERATION. Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
CLEANLINESS. Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation.
TRANQUILLITY. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
CHASTITY. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.
HUMILITY. Imitate Jesus and Socrates.
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