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- Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old…
- Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that…
- He that sells upon Credit expects to lose 5 per Cent. By bad Debts; therefore he charges, on all he sells upon Credit, an Advance…
- Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant…
- Lying rides upon debt's back.
- To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune.
- 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. . .…
- Force shites upon Reason's Back.
- Thank God! we are in the full enjoyment of all these privileges. But can we be taught to prize them too much? or how can…
- The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.
- If we look back in history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find a few that have not in their…
- If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect. But after all…
- Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.
- And we daily in our experiments electrise bodies plus or minus, as we think proper. [These terms we may use till your Philosophers give us…
- Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the…
- As to the kindness you mention, I wish I could have been of more service to you than I have been, but if I had,…
- 'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.
- I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of…
- I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
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