Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's PublicationA collection of maxims, arranged in approximately thirty categories, selected from various editions of Benjamin Franklin's "Poor Richard's Almanack." |
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... business at night . He that speaks ill of the Mare , will buy her . Fish and Visitors stink after three days . How few there are who have courage enough to own their Faults , or resolution enough to mend them ! A country man between two ...
... business at night . He that speaks ill of the Mare , will buy her . Fish and Visitors stink after three days . How few there are who have courage enough to own their Faults , or resolution enough to mend them ! A country man between two ...
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... business is neglected , which is theirs . So some fond traveller gazing at the stars , Slips in next ditch , and gets a dirty arse . He that can compose himself , is wiser than he that composes books . Poor Dick eats like a well man ...
... business is neglected , which is theirs . So some fond traveller gazing at the stars , Slips in next ditch , and gets a dirty arse . He that can compose himself , is wiser than he that composes books . Poor Dick eats like a well man ...
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... Business , or it will drive thee . Changing Countries or Beds , cures neither a bad Manager , nor a Fever . What's proper is becoming : See the Black- smith with his white Silk Apron ! The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put ...
... Business , or it will drive thee . Changing Countries or Beds , cures neither a bad Manager , nor a Fever . What's proper is becoming : See the Black- smith with his white Silk Apron ! The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put ...
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... but the well - bred man knows how to confess a fault , or acknowledge himself in an error . Eat to please thyself , but dress to please others . Search others for their virtues , thyself for thy vices . # # -颓 19 Drive thy business ; —
... but the well - bred man knows how to confess a fault , or acknowledge himself in an error . Eat to please thyself , but dress to please others . Search others for their virtues , thyself for thy vices . # # -颓 19 Drive thy business ; —
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... business ; — let not that drive thee . Lalus who loves to hear himself discourse , Keeps talking still as if he frantick were , And tho ' himself might no where hear a worse , Yet he no other but himself will hear . Stop not his mouth ...
... business ; — let not that drive thee . Lalus who loves to hear himself discourse , Keeps talking still as if he frantick were , And tho ' himself might no where hear a worse , Yet he no other but himself will hear . Stop not his mouth ...
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Advice bear better bring Business catch common Conscience Content Cunning cures curse dead dear Death Diseases doctor drink drive Ears enemy evil Face faithful Faults fear fire Folly Fools Friend gain give Gold grow Half Hand happy hard hast hath head hear heart hold honest Horse Husband injuries keep kind lawyer lazy leave Light live look loses lost man's Marry mend Mind mouth ne'er neighbour never once pains pays pleasure poor Pride purse Reason rich secret seldom Shame sleep soon speak spend Stone talk tell thee there's things thou To-morrow Tongue traveller troubled true turn Twas Vice Virtue waste wealth wife Wisdom wise wish woman World worth write wrong young
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Page 76 - TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. — SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3.
Page 73 - I give and I devise" (old Euclio said, And sigh'd) "my lands and tenements to Ned." Your money, Sir? "My money, Sir! what, all? Why,— if I must— (then wept) I give it Paul.
Page 74 - This doctrine, my friends, is reason and wisdom; but after all, do not depend too much upon your own industry, and frugality...
Page 76 - Employ thy Time well, if thou meanest to gain Leisure; and, since thou art not sure of a Minute, throw not away an Hour.
Page 70 - What though you have found no treasure, nor has any rich relation left you a legacy. Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
Page 14 - On his death-bed poor Lubin lies, His spouse is in despair ; With frequent sobs and mutual cries, They both express their care. " ' A different cause,' says Parson Sly, ' The same effect may give ; Poor Lubin fears that he shall die, His wife that he may live.
Page 60 - Epitaph on a talkative old Maid. Beneath this silent Stone is laid, A noisy antiquated Maid, Who from her Cradle talk'd 'till Death, And ne'er before was out of Breath.
Page 25 - MY love and I for kisses play'd ; She would keep stakes, I was content ; But when I won she would be paid, This made me ask her what she meant ; Nay, since I see (quoth she) you wrangle in vain, Take your own kisses, give me mine again.
Page 5 - Industry all easy, as Poor Richard says; and He that riseth late, must trot all Day, and shall scarce overtake his Business at Night. While Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him...