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| A little neglect may breed great mischief. | 1 |
| Ça ira—It shall go on (a French Revolution song). | 2 |
| Covetousness is ever attended with solicitude and anxiety. | 3 |
| Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him. | 4 |
| Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. | 5 |
| Drive thy business, let not thy business drive thee. | 6 |
| Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good. | 7 |
| Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others. | 8 |
| Employ thy time well if thou meanest to gain leisure, and, since you are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour. | 9 |
| Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct. | 10 |
| For want of a nail the shoe was lost, for want of a shoe the horse was lost, and for want of a horse the rider was lost. | 11 |
| Great haste makes great waste. | 12 |
| Hard work is still the road to prosperity, and there is no other. | 13 |
| He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. | 14 |
| He that blows the coals in quarrels he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. | 15 |
| He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honour. | 16 |
| He that lives upon hopes will die fasting. | 17 |
| Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. | 18 |
| If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it from him. | 19 |
| If you have time, don’t wait for time. | 20 |
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| If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher’s stone. | 21 |
| If you would have a faithful servant and one you like, serve yourself. | 22 |
| Industry need not wish. | 23 |
| It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. | 24 |
| It is folly to lay out money in the purchase of repentance. | 25 |
| Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. | 26 |
| Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain; the lazy man never. | 27 |
| Let thy child’s first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt. | 28 |
| Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death. | 29 |
| 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 more he wants. | 30 |
| Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day. | 31 |
| Nothing preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing. | 32 |
| One to-day is worth two to-morrows. | 33 |
| Pay not before thy work be done; If thou dost, it will never be well done, and thou wilt have but a pennyworth for twopence. | 34 |
| Plough deep while sluggards sleep. | 35 |
| Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue. It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright. | 36 |
| Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt. | 37 |
| Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy. | 38 |
| Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labour wears, while the used key is always bright. | 39 |
| The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest. | 40 |
| The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands. | 41 |
| The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I would want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture. | 42 |
| The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market; it depends chiefly on two words—industry and frugality. | 43 |
| Three may keep a secret—if two of them are dead. | 44 |
| Three removes are as bad as a fire. | 45 |
| Time is the stuff life is made of. | 46 |
| Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that have not wit enough to be honest. | 47 |
| Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge. | 48 |
| We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an abatement. | 49 |
| Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. | 50 |
| Whate’er’s begun in anger ends in shame. | 51 |
| When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more to be all of a piece. | 52 |
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