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.
Subject:
Character
Children
Community
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Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
Subject:
Wisdom
Life
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But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Subject:
Death
Taxes
Source: Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)
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If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.
Subject:
Life
Evil
Honesty
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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Subject:
Hope & Dreams
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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Subject:
Money
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Well done is better than well said.
Subject:
Advice
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Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Subject:
Kindness
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If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
Subject:
Money
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If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
Subject:
Wisdom
Intellect
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Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.
Subject:
Time
Relaxation
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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Subject:
Money
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There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Subject:
Government
Honesty
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He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Subject:
Love & Romance
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Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Subject:
Secrets
Source:
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Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Subject:
Wisdom
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Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Subject:
Worries
Source:
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Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Subject:
Memory
Source: Poor Richard.s Almanac (1758)
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Time is money.
Subject:
Efficiency
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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Subject:
Freedom
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