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"It is the man and woman united that makes the complete human being. Separate she lacks his force of body and strength of reason; he her softness, sensibility and acute discernment. Together they are most likely to succeed in the world."
"You cannot always run from a weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish."
"Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation."
"The devil wipes his breech with poor folks' pride."
"Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices."
"On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read."
"Bad gains are true losses."
"The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off."
"Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him."
"Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in the common occurrences of life, as well as in a battle. How many impertinences do we daily suffer with great uneasiness, because we have not courage enough to discover our dislike."
"Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful."
"Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." He planned his routine around waking up at 5 a.m. and asking himself "What good shall I do this day?"
"Great talkers should be cropt, for they've no need of ears."
"If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession."
"Love well, whip well."
"The longer I live the more convinced I become that God governs in the affairs of men. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine we no longer need His assistance."
"Industry and patience are the surest means of plenty."
"Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would work no more than was necessary for that purpose."
"Those who are willing to forfeit liberty for security will have neither."
"My dear friend, do not imagine that I am vain enough to ascribe our success [Revolution] to any superiority . . . If it had not been for the justice of our cause, and the consequent interposition of Providence, in which we had faith, we must have been ruined. If I had ever before been an atheist, I should now have been convinced of the being and government of a Deity!"