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A penny saved is twopence dear; A pin a day 's a groat a year.
Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.
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It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.
There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah - get first all the people's money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants forever.
No nation was ever ruined by trade.
Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.
A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian.
If you, do what you should not, you must bear what you would not.
There are three sorts of people in the world: Those who are immovable, people who don't get it, or don't want to do anything about it; there are people who are movable, people who see the need for change and are prepared to listen to it; and there are people who move, people who make things happen.
I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning.
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and oppressors, and a barrier against them. It produces excellent writers, and encourages men of fine genius.
If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
In New England they once thought blackbirds useless, and mischievous to the corn. They made efforts to destroy them. The consequence was, the blackbirds were diminished; but a kind of worm, which devoured their grass, and which the blackbirds used to feed on, increased prodigiously; then, finding their loss in grass much greater than their saving in corn, they wished again for their blackbirds.
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