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"We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowledgment of our services. But let us persevere through abuse and even injury. The internal satisfaction of a good conscience is always present, and time will do us justice in the minds of the people, even those at present the most prejudiced against us."
"A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds."
"If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another."
"It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance."
"Anger and folly walk cheeck by jowl."
"Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright."
"Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones."
"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other."
"We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct."
"Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty"
"If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately."
"Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty."
"Where there's no law, there's no bread."
"After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser."
"This modesty in a sect is perhaps a singular instance in the history of mankind, every other sect supposing itself in possession of all truth, and that those who differ are so far in the wrong ; like a man traveling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, tho' in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them."
"Forewarn'd, forearm'd."
"Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame."
"If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, “the greatest prodigality'; since, as he elsewhere tells us, 'Lost time is never found again'; and 'What we call time enough always proves little enough'. Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity."
"The proud hate pride in others."
"There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way."