“A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.”
Time“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.”
Knowledge“A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.”
Time“Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.”
Marriage“No man was ever great by imitation.”
Great“The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.”
Dreams“All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.”
Experience“Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.”
Great“The future is purchased by the present.”
Future“He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.”
Courage“Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.”
Society“I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.”
Great“What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.”
Hope“Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.”
Friendship“It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.”
Trust“No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.”
Money“Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.”
Respect“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”
Great“Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.”
Courage“The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.”
Hope“Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger.”
Great“No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.”
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