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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. 1 |
Historical Review of Pennsylvania. |
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God helps them that help themselves. 2 |
Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard’s Almanac, 1757. |
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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. |
Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard’s Almanac, 1757. |
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Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. 3 |
Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard’s Almanac, 1757. |
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Plough deep while sluggards sleep. |
Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard’s Almanac, 1757. |
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Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day. |
Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard’s Almanac, 1757. |
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Three removes are as bad as a fire. |
Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard’s Almanac, 1757. |
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Little strokes fell great oaks. 4 |
Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard’s Almanac, 1757. |
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A little neglect may breed mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost. |
Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard’s Almanac, 1757. |
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He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing. 5 |
Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard’s Almanac, 1757. |
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A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone. 6 |
Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard’s Almanac, 1757. |
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Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore. |
Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard’s Almanac, 1757. |
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It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright. |
Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard’s Almanac, 1757. |
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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. |
Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard’s Almanac, 1757. |
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We are a kind of posterity in respect to them. 7 |
Letter to William Strahan, 1745. |
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Remember that time is money. |
Advice to a Young Tradesman, 1748. |
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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. |
Letter on the Stamp Act, July 1, 1765. |
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Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug. 8 |
Letter to Miss Georgiana Shipley, September, 1772. |
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There never was a good war or a bad peace. 9 |
Letter to Josiah Quincy, Sept. 11, 1773. |
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You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours. |
Letter to William Strahan, July 5, 1775. |
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We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. |
At the signing of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. |
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He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. |
The Whistle. November, 1779. |
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Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years. |
Letter to Washington, March 5, 1780. |
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Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. |
Letter to M. Leroy, 1789. |