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- One today is worth two tomorrows. Lost time is never found again. Time is money. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for…
- So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry…
- Time is the stuff life is made of.
- Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events.
- The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it,…
- Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !
- I have lived a long time, sir, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth - that God governs…
- Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being…
- There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their…
- A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.
- I grew convinced that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life, and…
- 'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping…
- Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man in want to…
- Gaining money by my industry and frugality, I lived very agreeably. . . .
- If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his…
- Hope is an essential constituent of human life.
- Do you love life? Then don't waste time, because time is life!
- If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his…
- The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable…
- Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath a trade hath…
- What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . .…
- Ben Franklin was a little stout later in life and it was said that in Paris a young woman, tapping him on his protruding abdomen,…
- Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.
- One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts.
- The two most beautiful sights I have witnessed in my life are a full blown ship at sail and the round-bellied pregnant female.
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
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