Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor citizens.
If you, do what you should not, you must bear what you would not.
Being busy does not always mean real work.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness.
Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them.
Grievances cannot be redressed until they are known; and they cannot be known but through complaints and petitions. If these are deemed affronts, and the messengers punished as offenders, who will henceforth send petitions? And who will deliver them? Wise governments encouraged the airing of grievances, even those that were lightly founded Foolish governments did the opposite - to their peril. Where complaining is a crime, hope becomes despair.
Do well by doing good.
Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that gives out and then that-"Bugs"as such little faults and difficulties are called show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success-or failure-is certainly reached.
Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.
A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine.
He that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honor.
I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.
An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught.
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach,the rich man to get a stomach to his meat.
Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation.
Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.
Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
History affords us many instances of the ruin of states,by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper andgenius of their people. The ordaining of laws in favor of onepart of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. ... These measures never fail to create great and violent jealousies and animosities between the people favored and the people oppressed; whence a total separation of affections, interests, political obligations, and all manner of connections, by which the whole state is weakened.
All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful
Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours
Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade!
The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination.
I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey. For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America... He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on.
Joy doesn't exist in the world, it exists in us.
Pride gets into the Coach, and Shame mounts behind.
To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Applause waits on success.
I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.
No nation has ever been ruined by trade.
A wicked Hero will turn his back to an innocent coward.
Time is an herb that cures all Diseases.
He that doth what he should not, shall feel what he would not.
None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.
A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.
Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality.
Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.
It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought.
Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.
Hereafter, if you should observe an occasion to give your officers and friends a little more praise than is their due, and confess more fault than you can justly be charged with, you will only become the sooner for it, a great captain.
Since they are our right, let us be vigilant to preserve them uninfringed, and free from encroachments. If animosities arise, and we should be obliged to resort to party, let each of us range himself on the side which unfurls the ensigns of public good. Faction will then vanish, which, if not timely suppressed, may overturn the balance, the palladium of liberty, and crush us under its ruins.
One of the advantages of being a 'reasonable creature' is that one can find a reason for whatever one wants to do.
First, study the present construction. Second, ask for all past experiences ...study and read everything you can on the subject.
A man’s best friend is a good wife.
Remember that credit is money.
The height of foolishness is to discard an opportunity without full investigation
Read much, but not too many books.
Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward
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