“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
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“You may delay, but time will not.”
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“To cease to think creatively is to cease to live”
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“He that can have patience can have what he will.”
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“A place for everything, everything in its place”.
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“A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned”
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“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
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“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
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“The purpose of money was to purchase one’s freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting.”
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“Well done is better than well said.”
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“Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.”
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“He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.”
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“All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all, the person who knows HOW will always have a job, but the person who knows WHY will always be the boss.”
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“Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.”
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“Lost Time is never found again.”
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“Hide not your talents, they for use were made,
What’s a sundial in the shade?”
“whatever you become be good at it ”
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“The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.”
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“Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes”
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“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.”
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“Nothing ventured, nothing gained!!!”
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“Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.”
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“it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright”
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“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
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“Speak little, do much.”
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“The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty”
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“1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3. ORDER. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4. RESOLUTION. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. 5. FRUGALITY. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing. 6. INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employ’d in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. 7. SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit
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“The Proud hate Pride – in others.”
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“In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had compleatly overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.”
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“Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.”
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“If you give up your freedom for safety, you don’t deserve either one.”
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“Don’t cry over spilled milk”
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“When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.”
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“Joy is not in things, it is in us.”
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“The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.”
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“There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.”
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“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.”
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“The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.”
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“He who can have patience can have what he will.”
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“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”
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“Originality is the art of concealing your sources.”
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“Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves from making hasty moves; and finally, we learn from chess the greatest maxim in life – that even when everything seems to be going badly for us we should not lose heart, but always hoping for a change for the better, steadfastly continue searching for the solutions to our problems.”
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“For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.”
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“How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.”
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“Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.”
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“When you are finished changing, you’re finished.”
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“Haste makes waste.”
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“One today is worth two tomorrows”
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“There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.”
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“Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.”
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“If Passion drives, let Reason hold the Reins.”
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“The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.”
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“The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.”
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“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
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“Eat to live, don’t live to eat.”
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“Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.”
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“We stand at the crossroads, each minute, each hour, each day, making choices. We choose the thoughts we allow ourselves to think, the passions we allow ourselves to feel, and the actions we allow ourselves to perform. Each choice is made in the context of whatever value system we have selected to govern our lives. In selecting that value system, we are, in a very real way, making the most important choice we will ever make.
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“No one cares what you know until they know that you care!”
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“Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.”
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“He that speaks much, is much mistaken.”
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“Those things that hurt, instruct.”
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“Contentment makes poor men rich,
Discontent makes rich men poor.”
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“A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.”
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“To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girlfriends.”
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“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.”
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“Little strokes fell great oaks.”
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“you can do anything you set your mind to”
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“It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.”
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“When you’re testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.”
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“Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.”
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“For the want of a nail the shoe was lost,
For the want of a shoe the horse was lost,
For the want of a horse the rider was lost,
For the want of a rider the battle was lost,
For the want of a battle the kingdom was lost,
And all for the want of a horseshoe-nail.”
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“Today is Yesterday’s Pupil.”
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“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”
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“He that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.”
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“While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.”
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“There was never a bad peace or a good war.”
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“A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.”
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“Wise Men learn by other’s harms; Fools by their own.”
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“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.”
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“What you would seem to be, be really.”
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“Life biggest tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late”
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“Originality is the art of concealing your sources.”
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“If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty.”
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“Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.”
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“If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.”
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“We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing!”
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“Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.”
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“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”
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“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.”
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“Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.”
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“He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.”
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“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.”
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“Great Modesty often hides great Merit.”
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“Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do today.”
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“A good example is the best sermon.”
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“Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.”
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“Would you live with ease,
Do what you ought, and not what you please.”
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“To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.”
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“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
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“Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.”
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“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
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“Write to Please Yourself.
When You write to Please Others
You end up Pleasing No one.”
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“Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind’s misery.”
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