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THE FRANKLIN YEAR BOOK

Uniform with this Volume

The Lincoln Year Book. Axioms and

Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator for

Every Day in the Year. Compiled by Wal-

lace Rice. . . . Mr* $1.00

A. C. McClurg & Co.

Chicago

THE

FRANKLIN YEAR BOOK

MAXIMS AND MORALS FROM THE

GREAT PHILOSOPHER

COMPILED BY

WALLACE RICECOMPILER OF "THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK''

CHICAGOA. C. McCLURG & CO.

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f2-Copyright, 1907,

A. C. McClurg & Co.

Published October 12, 1907

BEQUEST OF SAMUEL SIGILMANFEBRUARY 14, 1941

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Deny self, for self's sake.

The noblest question in the world is, What good can I do

in it?

JANUARY

But dost thou love life ? Then do not squander

time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

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JANUARY

FIRS T

Resolve to perform what you ought;

perform without fail what you resolve.

SECONDDrink water.

THIRD

He that idly loses five shillings' worth

of time loses five shillings, and might as

prudently throw five shillings into the sea.

FOURTH

Industry pays debts, while despair in-

creaseth them.

FIF TH

We may give advice, but we can not

give conduct. AE


JANUARY

SIXTH

Necessity never made a good bargain.

SB VE NTH

If you would have a faithful servant,

and one that you like, serve yourself.

EIGHTH

Three may keep a secret, if two of

them be dead.

NINTH

They that will not be counselled can

not be helped.

TENTH

Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep

thee.


JANUARY

ELE VENT H

When the well is dry, they know the

worth of water.

TWELF TH

If you would know the value of money,

go and try to borrow some.

TH I R TEENTH

An old young man will be a young old

man.

F O U RTE EN T H

It is easier to build two chimneys than

to keep one in fuel.

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F I F TEENTH

Add frugality, if we would make our

industry certainly successful.


JANUARY

SIXTEENTH

He that can have patience can have

what he will.

S E V E NT E E N T H

It is prodigious the quantity of goodthat may be done by one man, if he will

make a business of it.

EI G H TEEN T H

A man's own care is profitable.

NINE TEENTH

Covetousness is ever attended with

solicitude and anxiety.

TWE NT I E T H

To bear other people's afflictions,

every one has courage enough and to

spare.


JANUARY

TWE NT Y - FIRS T

There are lazy minds as well as lazy

bodies.

TWENTY- SECOND

Wealth is not his that has it, but his

that enjoys it.

TWE N TY-TH I RD

Always taking out of the meal tub and

never putting in soon gets to the bottom.

TWENTY-FO U R TH

Creditors have better memories than

debtors.

TWENTY-FI F TH

Avoid extremes.

TWENTY- SIXTH

In the affairs of this world men are

saved, not by faith, but by want of it.

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JANUARY

TWENTY- SE VEN T H

What vast additions to the conven-

iences and comforts of living mightmankind have acquired, if the money

spent in war had been employed in

works of public utility.

TWENTY- EI G H TH

A ploughman on his legs is higher

than a gentleman on his knees.

TWENTY-NINTH

Grace thou thy house, and let not that

grace thee.

THIRTIETH

Not to oversee workmen is to leave

them your purse open.

TH I R TY - FIRS T

Be not disturbed at trifles.

FEBRUARY

The most acceptable service of God is the do-

ing good to man.


FEBRUARY

FIRS T

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

SECOND

Because they look pretty, how manywant to have them !

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FOURTH

Pride meets with provocations and

disturbances upon almost every occa-

sion.

F I F T H

Sal laughs at everything you

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FEBRUARY

SIXTH

Love well, whip well.

SEVENTH

Tolerate no uncleanliness.

EI G H TH

My father convinced me that nothing

was useful which was not honest.

NINTH

A man may, if he knows not how to

save as he gets, keep his nose all his life

to the grindstone.

TENTH

Keep your eyes open before marriage,

half-shut afterwards.


FEBRUARY

ELE VENT H

Experience keeps a dear school, but

fools will learn in no other.

TWELF TH

Happy that nation, fortunate that age,

whose history is not diverting.

TH I R TEENTH

Search others for their virtues, thyself

for thy vices.

FO U R TEENTH

Learn to be quiet and respect each

other's rights.

F I F TEENTH

In this country we are not so afraid of

being laughed at.


FEBRUARY

SIXTEENTH

Hast thou virtue? acquire also the

graces and beauties of virtue.

5 E VENTEENTH

By diligence and patience the mouse

ate in two the cable.

EIGHTEENTH

It is of the essence of envy to be un-

easy and disquieted.

NINE TEENTH

As we must account for every idle

word, so we must for every idle silence.

TWENT I E TH

Let thy discontents be thy secrets.


FEBRUARY

TWENTY- FIRS T

Want of care does us more damagethan want of knowledge.

TWENTY- SECOND

If you would be wealthy, think of sav-

ing as well as getting.

TWEN TY-THIRD

As to old age, it will be incurable this

year, because of years past.

TWENTY- F O U R T H

Tricks and treachery are the practice

of fools that have not wit enough to be

honest.

TWEN T Y- F I F T H

Avoid trifling conversation.


FEBRUARY

TWENTY- SIX T H

Silks and satins, scarlet and velvets,

put out the kitchen fire.

TWENTY- S B VENT H

Let thy handmaid be faithful, strong,

and homely.

TWENTY- EI G H T H

Forbear resenting injuries as much as

you think they deserve.

TWENTY-NINTH

Those have a short Lent who owe

money to be paid at Easter.

MARCH

All true happiness, as all that is truly beautiful,

can only resultfrom order.


MARCH

FIRS T

Opportunity is the great bawd.

SECOND

We know not how soon we may have

a fresh occasion for friends, for credit,

and for reputation.

THIRD

I found myself obliged to comply, con-

vinced of the folly of being on bad terms

with those one is to live with continually. W Q ^ y

FOUR T H

The eye of a master will do more

work than both his hands.

F I F r H

It is foolish to lay out money in a pur-

chase of repentance.


MARCH

SIXTH

Hard names and many were bestowed

on me.

S E VBNTH

Whenever we attempt to amend the

scheme of Providence, we had need be

circumspect, lest we do more harm than

good.

EIGHTH

It would not be altogether absurd if a

man were to thank God for his vanity

among the other comforts of life.

NINTH

Let thy child's first lesson be obedi-

ence, and the second will be what thou

wilt.

TENTH

Remember that credit is money.


MARCH

E L E V E NTH

There are no gains without pains ;then

help, hands, for I have no lands.

TWELF TH

The way to wealth, if you desire it, is

as plain as the way to market.

TH I R TEE NTH

Don't throw stones at your neighbors,

if your own windows are glass.

FOUR TEENTH

A man must have a great deal of

vanity who believes, and a good deal of

boldness who affirms, that all the doc-

trines he holds are true, and all he

rejects are false.

F I F TEENTH

There are numbers, who, perhaps, fear

less the being in hell than out of fashion.


MARCH

SIXTEEN T H

If you can gain the great to an exem-

plary life, wonderful changes will follow

in the manners of the lower ranks.

S E YEN TEEN T H

Form the pronunciation of youth on

the best models.

EI G H TEEN T H

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NINE TE E NTH

Ignorance is often attended with cre-

dulity when knavery would mislead it,

and with suspicion when honesty would

set it right.

TWENTIETH

Fondness for ourselves, rather than

malevolence to others, I take to be the

general source of censure and backbiting.


MARCH

TWENTY- FIRS T

Ideas will string themselves, like ropes

of onions.

TWENTY- SECOND

Not being used to liberty, they know

not how to make a modest use of it.

TWEN TY-TH I R D

Wise and good men are the strength

of a state.

TWENTY- FO U R TH

If you will not hear Reason, she will

surely rap your knuckles.

TWENTY- F I F TH

He that possesses anything he has

bought, pays interest for the use of it.

TWENTY- SIXTH

The greater the common fashionable

expense of a rank of people, the more

cautious they are of marriage.


MARCH

TWENTY- S E VENTHEat not to dullness

;drink not to ele-

vation.

TWENTY- E I GH TH

To distress is to weaken.

TWENTY-NINTHThose who can not get land must

labor for those who have it.

THIRTIETH

He that by the plough would thrive

Himself must either hold or drive.

TH I R TY - FIRS T

She that will eat her breakfast in her

bed,

And spend the morn in dressing of her

head,

And sit at dinner like a maiden bride,

And talk of nothing all day but of pride ;

God in his mercy may do much to save

her,

But what a case is he in that doth have

her!

APRIL

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in chang-

ing.


APRIL

FIRS T

He has paid dear, very dear, for his

whistle.

SECOND

Buy what thou hast no need of, and

ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries.

THIRD

Continual dropping wears awaystones.

FOURTH

The riches of a country are to be

valued by the quantity of labor its inhab-

itants are able to purchase.

F I F TH

Sloth shortens life.

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APRIL

SIXTH

Many estates are spent in the getting,

Since women for tea forsook spinning and

knitting,

And men for punch forsook hewing and

splitting.

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The public money, raised from all,

belongs to all.

EI G H TH

Employ thy time well if thou meanest

to gain leisure.

NINTH

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Most people dislike vanity in others,

whatever share they have of it them-

selves.

TENTH

Many have been ruined by buying

good pennyworths.


APRIL

E LE VE NT H

There are three faithful friends, an old

wife, an old dog, and ready money.

TWELF TH

Plough deep while sluggards sleep,

and you shall have corn to sell and keep.

TH I R TE E NTH

Never making a St. Monday recom- (f

mended me to the master.

FO U R TEENTH

One sword often keeps another in the

scabbard.

F I F TEENTH

He that lives upon hopes will die fast-

ing.


APRIL

SIX TEEN T H

Those who have much business must

have much pardon.

S E VENTEENTH

Talents for the education of youth are

the gift of God.

E I G H TEENTH

Having plenty of merit in himself, he

Mj was not jealous of the appearance of

merit in others.

NINE TEENTH

I should have no objection to a repeti-

tion of life from the beginning, only asking

the advantages authors have in a revised

edition to correct some faults in the first.

TWE NT I E TH

God heals; the doctor takes the fee.


APRIL

TWENTY- FI R S T

It is a long peace, indeed, as well as a

long lane, that has no ending.

TWENTY- SECOND

Ambition has its disappointments to

sour us, but never the good fortune to

satisfy us.

TWE N TY- THIRD

Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than ',,,,„

labor wears.

TWENTY- FOURTH

Creditors are a superstitious set, great

observers of set days and times.

TWENTY- FIF TH

If you would have your business done,

go; if not, send.


APRIL

TWENTY- SIXTH

In this world nothing is certain but

death and taxes.

TWENTY- SEVENTH

Nothing gives an author so great

pleasure as to find his works respectfully

quoted by others.

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TWENTY- EI G H TH

Opinions should be judged of by their

influences and effects.

TWENTY-NINTH

The fewer our old friends become, the

more let us love one another.

TH I R TIE TH

He that goes a- borrowing goes a-

sorrowing.

MAY

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us byother men, but a right that belongs to us by the

laws of God and nature.


MAY

FIRS T

Three removes are as bad as a fire.

SECOND

I never saw an oft-removed tree

Nor yet an oft-removed family

That throve as well as those that settled,

be.

THIRD

I had a tolerable character to begin

with; I valued it properly, and deter-

mined to preserve it.

FOURTH

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There are croakers in every country.

F I F TH

God gives all things to industry.


MAY

SIXTH

Pride is as loud a beggar as Want,and a great deal more saucy.

S E V E NTH

This year the stone blind shall see but

very little.

EI G H TH

Since thou art not sure of a minute,

1 throw not away an hour.

NINTH

All wars are follies, very expensive and

very mischievous ones.

TENTH

He always speaks the thing he means,

which he is never afraid or ashamed to

do, because he knows he always means

well.


MAY

ELE VENT H

The passions can never fix us in a

proper composure and acquiescence of

mind.

TWELF TH

Women and wine, game and deceit,

Make the wealth small and the want

great.

TH I R TEENTH

The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

F O U R TEENTH

I am apt to speak in the singular

number.

F I F TEENTH

It is no more in a man's power to

think than to look like another.


MAY

SIX TEEN T H

Scandal, like other virtues, is in part

its own reward.

S E YEN TEEN T H

The used key is always bright, as Poor

Richard says.

E I G H TEEN T H

There should be a mutual dependencebetween governors and governed.

NINE TEE NTH

Small things appear great to those in

small circumstances.

TWE N TIE T H

To receive credit and character as a

tradesman, I took care not only to be

in reality industrious and frugal, but to

avoid all appearances to the contrary.


MAY

TWENTY- FIRS T

I thought so meanly of him for it, that,

when I afterward came into his situation,

I took care never to imitate it.

TWENTY - SECOND

I never was without some religious

principles.

TWENTY-TH l RD

He that would thrive must ask his wife.

TWENTY - F O U R T H

These might all be good things, but gthey were not the kind of good things I

expected.

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I wished to live without committing a

fault.


MAY

TWENTY- SIXTH

It is certain that no country in the

world produces naturally finer spirits

than ours.

TWENTY- SEVENTH

Let the fair sex be assured that I shall

always treat them and their affairs with

the utmost decency and respect.

TWENTY- EIGHTH

Heavy taxes tend to diminish a people.

TWENTY-NINTH

The day comes around before you are

aware.

T H I R TIE T H

At a great pennyworth pause a while.

TH I R TY- F I R S T

One to-day is worth two to-morrows.

JUNE

Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great,

glorious, and happy.


JUNE

FIRS T

Drive thy business, let not that drive JR^thee.

SECOND

Libraries have improved the general

conversation of the American, made the

common tradesmen and farmers as in-

telligent as most gentlemen from other

countries, and perhaps have contributed

in some degree to the stand so generally

made through the country in defence of

their privileges.

THIRD

Long habits of virtue have a sensible

effect on the countenance.

FOURTH

Laziness drives so slowly that Povertysoon overtakes him.


JUNE

FIFTH

While you live expense is constant

and certain.

SIXTH

When you have bought one fine thing

you must buy ten more.

S E VBNTH

Take care of yourself. Your life is a

valuable one.

EIGHTH

Hope of being free from care and labor,

with fear of penury, are the mainsprings

of most people's industry.

NINTH

Visit seldom, and tarry but a little

while in a place.


JUNE

TENTH

Virtue is the best guard against the

many evils incident to us.

ELE V E NTH

Vital religion has always suffered

when orthodoxy is more regarded than

virtue.

TWELF TH

What great difference can there be

between putting yourself up, or putting

your neighbor down?

THIRTEENTH

There are little follies in the behavior

of most men which their best friends are

too tender to acquaint them with.

FOUR TEENTH

An author, as such, ought to be tried

by the merit of his productions only.


JUNE

F I F T F E N T H

There seems to be some peculiar

charm in the conceit of finding money.

SIXTEENTH

He is no clown that drives the plough,

but he that does clownish things.

S E YEN TEE N T H

How many impertinences do we daily

suffer with great uneasiness, because we

have not courage enough to discover

our dislikes?

EI G H TEENTH

Few are against me but those who

have reason to fear me.

NINE TEENT H

What misfortune in your pleasures has

sent you to philosophy for relief?


JUNE

TWE NT I E TH

Money can beget money.

TWENTY- FIRS T

Forage and want save while you may;No morning sun lasts the whole day.

TWENTY- SECOND

What maintains one vice would bring

up two children.

TWENTY-THIRD

At the last day we shall not be ex-

amined for what we thought, but what we &did.

TWENTY- F O U R TH

He only loves himself well who rightly

and judiciously loves himself.

TWENTY- F I F TH

As to going on petty errands, no boyslove it, but all must do it.

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JUNE

TWENTY- SIXTH

Don't you know that all wives are in

the right?

TWENTY- SEVENTH

Self-denial is really the highest self-

gratificatipn.

TWENTY- EI G H TH

It was about this time I conceived the

bold and arduous project of arriving at

moral perfection.

TWENTY-NINTH

Natural good and evil are pleasure

and pain ;moral good and evil are pleas-

ure and pain produced with intention and

design.

THIRTIETH

Beware of little expenses.

JULY

A new truth is a truth; an old error is an

error.


JULY

FIRS T

Leisure is time for doing something

useful.

SECOND

Lying rides upon Debt's back.

THIRD

Industry need not wish.

FOURTH

They that can give up essential liberty

to obtain a little temporary safety deserve

neither liberty nor safety.

Fi F TH

All property seems to me to be the

creature of public convention.


JULY

SIXTH

We may dislike things that are never-

theless right in themselves.

SB YEN TH

Fly pleasures, and they will follow you.

EI G H TH

Never leave that till to-morrow which

you can do to-day.

NINTH

Life, like a dramatic piece, should not

only be conducted with regularity, but

it should end handsomely.

TEN TH

He can have no rights to the benefits

of society who will not pay his club to-

wards the support of it.


JULY

ELE V E NT H

It is easier to suppress the first desire

than to satisfy all that follow it.

TWELF TH

Remember that money is of the pro-

lific, generating nature.

THIRTEENTH

Who has deceived thee as oft as thy-

self?

FO URTEENTH

I made the greater progress from that

greater clearness of head and quicker

apprehension which usually attend tem-

perance in eating and drinking.

F I F TEENTH

We should not suffer pride to prevent

our progress in science.


JULY

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His great excellence lay in a sound

understanding and solid judgment in pru-

Lt^ dential matters, both public and private.

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Industry, frugality, and prudent econ-

omy in a wife are a fortune.

E I G H T E EN T H

What is wit, or wealth, or form, or

learning, when compared to virtue ?

NINE T E E NTH

There are none without their faults;

no, not one.

TWEN TIE TH

The ideas of aggrandizement by con-

quest are out of fashion.


JULY

TWENTY- F I R S T

If you can perceive the fruit to be

good, don't terrify yourself that the tree

may be evil.

TWBN TY- SECOND

He that riseth late must trot all day,

and shall scarce overtake his business at—

night.

TWENTY-T H I RD

Above all things I dislike family quar-

rels.

TWENTY - FOURTH

Rather go to bed supperless than rise

in debt.

TWENTY- F I F T H

I escaped being a poet, most probably ;r or r

a very bad one.


JULY

TWENTY- SIXTH

Happiness in this life depends rather

upon internals than externals.

TWENTY"- SEVENTH

Pride is the ground floor; Hope is up

one pair of stairs.

TWENTY- EI G H T H

The world is too full of compliments

already.

TWENTY-NINTH

Conversation warms the mind.

TH I R TIE TH

Remember Job suffered and was af-

terwards prosperous.

TH I RTY- F I RS T

The event God only knows.

AUGUST

Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and

justly; and, ifyou speak, speak accordingly.


AUGUST

FIRS T

Whenever we attempt to amend the

scheme of Providence, we had need be

circumspect, lest we do more harm than

good.

SECOND

Many people lead bad lives that would

gladly lead good ones, but do not know

how to make the change.

THIRD

Sloth makes all things difficult.

FOURTH

Get what you can, and what you get hold;

Tis the stone that will turn all your lead

into gold.

F I F TH

The cat in gloves catches no mice.


AUGUST

SIXTH

It has been a pleasure to me to see

good workmen use their tools.

SB V E NT H

Most people have naturally some vir-

tues, but none have naturally all the

virtues.

EI G H T H

There is no rank in natural knowledgeof equal dignity and importance with

that of being a good parent, a good child,

a good husband or wife, a good neighbor

and friend, a good subject or citizen.

NINTH

Pride is a folly soon punished.

TENTH

I never doubted the existence of the

Deity, that he made the world, and

governed it by his Providence.


AUGUST

ELE VENT H

Good wives and good plantations are

made by good husbands. V>

TWELF TH %

Luxury should never be suffered to

become common.

TH I R TEE NTH

A man is sometimes more generouswhen he has little money than when he

has plenty, perhaps through fear of being

thought to have but little.

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FOUR TE E NTH

Trust betrayed is trust bestowed.

F I F TE EN TH

I love to hear of every good thing that

tends to increase the number of good

people.


AUGUST

SIX TEEN TH

Health of body is not sufficient to

make us happy of itself.

S E VEN TEEN TH

Cut off all unnecessary actions.

EI G H TEENTH

Plain honest truth is not the character

of a compliment.

NINE TEENTH

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier

hand than kings and parliaments.

TWE NT I E TH

The mob hate instruction.

TWENTY- EI R S T

Vessels large may venture more,

But little boats should keep near shore.


AUGUST

TWENTY- SECOND

There was never yet a truly great manwho was not at the same time truly

virtuous.

TWEN TY-T H I R D

No man who can have a piece of land

of his own, sufficient by his labor to sub-

sist his family in plenty, is poor enoughto work for a master.

TWENT Y - F O U R T H

Fools make feasts and wise men eat

them.

TWENTY- F I F T H

A life of leisure and a life of laziness

are two things.

TWEN T Y- SIX T H

Many, without labor, would live bytheir wits only, but they break for want

of stock.


AUGUST

TWENTY- SEVENTH

Speak not but what may benefit others

or yourself.

TWENTY- EIGHTH

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Be little burdensome and essentially

useful to friends.

TWENTY-NINTH

He that hath a trade hath an estate.

T H I R TIE T H

A small leak will sink a great ship.

T H I R T Y- FIRS T

The great body of intelligence amongour people surrounds and overpowersour petty dissensions.

SEPTEMBER

The proof of gold is fire ; the proof of a

woman, gold; the proof of a man, a woman.


SEPTEMBER

FIRS T

Virtue is the best preservative of

health.

SECOND

What we call time enough always

proves little enough.

THIRD

At the working-man's house hungerlooks in but dares not enter.

FOUR T H

He that hath a calling hath an office

of profit and honor. 2

F I F T H

Let no man flatter the age with pre-

tending that we have arrived at a perfec-

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SEPTEMBER

SIX T H

While my care was employed in guard-

ing against one fault, I was often sur-

prised by another.

S E V E NTH

Pride that dines on vanity sups on

contempt.

EI G H T H

He wished to please everybody ; and,

having little to give, he gave expectations.

NINTH

The foolish part of mankind will make

wars from time to time with each other,

not having sense enough otherwise to

settle their differences.

TENTH

We ought always to do what appears

best to be done, without much regarding

what others may think of it.


SEPTEMBER

E LB VBNTH

You may have an opportunity of assist-

ing with an equal sum a stranger whohas equal need of it. Do so. By that

means you will discharge any obligation

you may suppose yourself under to me.

Enjoin him to do the same upon occa-

sion. By pursuing such a practice much

good may be done with a little money.

TWE L F T H

Stick to it steadily.

T H I R TEE NTH

Moral and political rights sometimes

differ, and are sometimes both subdued

by might.

FOUR TEE NTH QQLgP

Friends have been my treasure.


SEPTEMBER

F I F T E E NTH

There are minds who would give credit

to a man that lived 3000 years ago, or at

3000 leagues distance, rather than to a

neighbor, or even to a friend.

SIX TEEN T H

Never be discouraged.

5 E VENTEE NTH

"Blessed are the peacemakers," is, I

suppose, to be understood in the other

world, for in this they are frequently

cursed.

EI G H TEENTH

The truth may not always be proper.

NINE TEENTH

The surest way to obtain liberal help

from others is vigorously to help our-

selves.


SEPTEMBER

TWB NT I E T H

When I was a boxing boy, it was al-

lowed, even after an enemy said he had

enough, to give him a rising blow.

TWENTY- FIRS T

Time will smooth away all difficulties.

TWENTY- SECOND

Frauds are vastly more pernicious

than simple thefts.

TWENTY-THIRD

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Reconciliation is a sweet expression.

TWENTY- FO U R TH

None abuse confidence but those who

possess it.

TWEN TY-F I FT H

Let all your things have their places.


SEPTEMBER

TWENTY- SIX TH

Let us mind our own business.

TWENTY- SB VENTH

Hope and faith may be more firmly

grounded upon charity, than charity upon

hope and faith.

TWENTY- E I G H TH

He that has once done you a kindness

will be more ready to do you another

than he whom you yourself have obliged.

TWEN TY-NIN TH

Virtue is not secure until its practice

has become a habitude.

THIRTIETH

OCTOBER

A little neglect may cause a great mischief :

for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of

a shoe the horse was lost; for want of a horse

the rider was lost.


OCTOBER

FIRS T

Early to bed and early to rise

Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

SECOND

The whim suited me better from the

cheapness of it.

THIRD

If you were a servant, would you not

be ashamed that a good master should

catch you idle ? Are you not your ownmaster?

FOURTH

The prejudices of disrespect between

nations prevail only among the inferior

ranks.

F I F TH

Be always employed in somethinguseful.


OCTOBER

SIX T H

The philanthropist, who wishes the

good of his own country and of mankind,

must be the bulrush bending to the

storm, and not the sturdy oak, unavail-

ingly resisting.

SB YEN TH

Few in public affairs act with a view

to the good of mankind.

EIGHTH

God will certainly reward virtue and

punish vice, either here or hereafter.

NINTH

The judgment of a whole people, es-

pecially of a free people, is looked upon

as infallible.

TENTH

Men I find to be a sort of beings very

badly constructed.


OCTOBER

ELE V E NT H f

Great affairs sometimes take their rise

from small circumstances.

TWELF TH

Americans do not enquire concerninga stranger, What is he ? but, What canhe do?

TH I R TEE N T H

Lost time is never found again.

FOUR TEEN TH

I made myself as tidy as I could.

F I F TEENTH

Let kind offices go round.

SIX TEENTH

Trust not too much to others.


OCTOBER

SEVEN TEEN T H

Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined

with Poverty, and supped with Infamy.

EI G H TEEN T H

I shall never ask, never refuse, nor

ever resign an office.

NINE TEENTH

History is full of the errors of states

and princes.

TWENTI E TH

When men are employed they are

best contented.

TWENTY- FIRS T

Disputing, contradicting, and confuting

people are generally unfortunate in their

affairs.


OCTOBER

TWENTY- SECOND

Human felicity is produced not so

much by great pieces of good fortune

that seldom happen as by little advan-

tages that occur every day.

TWEN TY-T H I R D

Not knowing but that he might be in

the right, I let him enjoy his opinions,

which I take to be the best way.

TWENTY- F O U R T H

Without virtue man can have no hap-

piness.

TWENTY- F I F TH

I think no pleasure innocent that is to

man hurtful.

TWEN TY- S I XT H

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Here comes the orator with his flood

of words and his drop of reason.


OCTOBER

TWENTY- SEVENTH

Money is necessary to introduce econ-

omy, while, at the same time, economyis necessary to obtain money.

TWEN TY-EIGHTH

No man is wise at all times and in all

things, but some are more frequently

wise than others.

TWEN TY-N IN TH

I love company, chat, a laugh, a glass,

and even a song as well as ever.

THIRTIETH

I made that man my enemy by doing

him too much kindness. It is the hon-

estest way of acquiring an enemy.

TH I R TY - FIRS T

What repeated follies are repeated

wars !

NOVEMBER

Alexanderand Caesar, those renownedgenerals,received more faithful services, and performed

greater actions, by means of the love their soldiers

bore them, than they probably would have done, if,

instead of being beloved and respected, they had

been hated andfeared.


NOVEMBER

FIRS T

While a party is carrying on a general

design, each man has his particular pri-

vate interest in view. CJj!

liSECOND

Handle your tools without mittens.

THIRD

Contrary habits must be broken, and

good ones acquired and established, be-

fore we can have any dependence on a

steady, uniform rectitude of conduct.

FOURTH

Few in public affairs act from a mereview of the good of their country, what-

ever they may pretend.

F I F T H

Now I have a sheep and a cow every-

body bids me good-morrow.


NOVEMBER

SIX T H

Mankind are all of a family.

S E VENTH

Foes counteract the mischief flatterers

might do us.

EIGHTH

Nothing in human affairs and schemes

is perfect, and perhaps that is the cause'

of our opinions.

NINTH

I think all the heretics I have known

have been virtuous men.

TEN T H

People that lead a long life and drink

to the bottom of the cup must expect

some of the dregs.


NOVEMBER

ELE VE NTH

If our desires are to the things of this

world, they are never to be satisfied.

TWE L F T H

Let each part of your business have

its time.

T H I R TEENTH

Even if I could conceive that I had

completely overcome pride, I should

probably be proud of my humility.

FO URTEENTH

There could not be a more potent

counterpoise to the designs of ambitious

men than a multitude that feared and

hated ambition.

F I F TEENTH

Who dainties love shall beggars prove.

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NOVEMBER

SIXTEEN T H

Enemies serve to put us upon correct-

ing the faults we have, and avoiding

those we are in danger of having.

S E VENTEENTH

So convenient a thing is it to be a

reasonable" creature, since it enables one

to make a reason for everything one has

a mind to.

EI G H TEENTH

In success be moderate.

NINE TEENTH

For these fifty years past no one has

ever heard a dogmatical expression es

cape me.

TWENTI E T H

A fat kitchen makes a lean will.


NOVEMBER

TWENTY- F I R S T

There is neither sin nor shame in

knitting a pair of stockings.

TWENTY- SECOND

I grew convinced that truth, sincerity,

and integrity in dealings between manand man were of the utmost importanceto the felicity of life.

TWENTY-T H I RD

The second vice is lying, the first is

running in debt.

TWENTY- F O U R T H

If time be of all things the most pre-

cious, wasting time must be the greatest

prodigality.

TWENTY- F I FT H

The married state is, after all our

jokes, the happiest, being conformable

to our natures.

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NOVEMBER

TWBN TY- S I XT H

Lazy workmen are commonly ob-

served to be more extravagant in their

demands than the industrious, for, if they

jjEhave not more for their work, they can

not live as well.

TWE NT Y-SEVENTH

There never was, and never will be, a

good war nor a bad peace.

TWENTY- EIGHTH

The foundation of all virtue and hap-

piness is thinking rightly.

TWENTY-NINTH

So pursue pleasure as not to give for

it more than it is worth.

T H I R TIE T H

I have long been accustomed to re-

ceive more blame, as well as more

praise, than I have deserved.

DECEMBER

If we were as industrious to become good as to

make ourselves great, we should become really

great by being good.


DECEMBER

FIRS T

The use of money is all the advantagethere is in having money.

SECOND

There 's small revenge in words, but

words may be greatly revenged.

THIRD

There 's nothing better to be said

Than that they 've eat up all their bread,

Drunk all their drink, and gone to bed.

FOURTH

Necessity knows no law. I knowsome attorneys of the name.

F I F TH

Poverty often deprives a man of all

spirit and virtue.


DECEMBER

SIX TH

Kindness from men I can only return

on their fellow men.

S E YEN TH

The pleasures in this world are rather

from God's goodness than our own merit.

E I G H TH

Do good to thy friend to keep him, to

thy enemy to gain him.

NINTH

Light up the candle of industry and

economy.

TENTH

When employed in serving others, I

do not look upon myself as conferring

favors, but as paying debts.


DECEMBER

E L E V E NT H

Lose no time.

TWE L F TH

I made it a rule to forbear all direct7fi\

contradiction to the sentiments of others,St

and all positive assertion of my own.

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T H I R TEEN TH

The more affectionate relations are to

each other, the more they are respected

by the rest of the world.

F O U R TEEN TH

Work while it is called to-day.

F I F T E ENTH

It is hard for an empty bag to stand

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DECEMBER

SIX TEEN TH

Suppositions, however ingenious, are

often mere mistakes.

S E VENTE E N TH

A man is not completely born until he

is dead.

E I G H TEEN TH

I was surprised to find myself so much

fuller of faults than I had imagined.

NINE TEENTH

Be ashamed to catch yourself idle.

TWEN TIE TH

A benevolent man should allow a few

faults in himself, to keep his friends in

countenance.

TWEN T Y- EI R S T

The diligent spinner has a long shift.


DECEMBER

TWE N TY - SECOND

No qualities are so likely to make a

poor man's fortune as those of probity

and integrity.

TWE N T Y- THIRD

If two persons equal in judgment play ;':••%

for a considerable sum, he that loves

money most will lose.

TWENTY- F O U RT H

Increase in me that wisdom which dis-

covers my truest interest.

TWENTY- F I F T H

Let no pleasures tempt thee, no profit

allure thee, no ambition corrupt thee, no

example sway thee, no persuasion movethee to do anything which thou knowest

to be evil;so shalt thou live jollily, for a

good conscience is a continual Christ-

mas.


DECEMBER

TWENTY- SIXTH

Nothing is so likely to make a man's

fortune as virtue.

TWENTY - SEVENTHVicious habits are not hurtful because

they are forbidden, but forbidden because

they are hurtful.

TWENTY- EIGHTH

It is time for an old man, as I am, to

be thinking of his great remove.

TWENT Y-N I NT H

It is pleasant to see the world growing

better and happier.

T H I R TIE T H

There will be sleeping enough in the

grave.

T H I R TY- F I RS T

In looking back, how short the time

seems!

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