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A Bit of Wisdom from the 1738 Poor Richard's Almanac |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 04/24/2024 02:49 PM
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Philadelphia, PA...Our Favorite Founding Father is Ben Franklin. He didn't just help found our country during the 1776 era. For two generations before he helped sell concepts of Freedom, Self-Determination & Inalienable rights. From 1733 to 1758 Poor Richards Almanac helped create the unique American identity in a homey, common sense, aspirational way. A few Bits of Wisdom from 1738...
 
There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Who has deceiv'd thee so oft as thy self?
Buy what thou hast no need of; and e'er long thou shalt sell thy necessaries.
Read much, but not many books.
Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar.
Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces & beauties of virtue.
If you wou'd not be forgotten As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worth reading, Or do things worth the writing.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power.
Let thy vices die before thee.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
Since I cannot govern my own tongue, tho' within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongues of others?
Time is an herb that cures all Diseases.
Drive thy business; let not that drive thee.
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices.
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A Bit of Wisdom from the 1737 Poor Richard's Almanac |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 04/18/2024 09:05 AM
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Philadelphia, PA...Our Favorite Founding Father is Ben Franklin. He didn't just help found our country during the 1776 era. For two generations before he helped sell concepts of Freedom, Self-Determination & Inalienable rights. From 1733 to 1758 Poor Richards Almanac helped create the unique American identity in a homey, common sense, aspirational way. A few Bits of Wisdom from 1737...
At the working man's house hunger looks in but dares not enter.
A Penny sav'd is Twopence clear, A pin a day is a Groat a Year. Save & have. Every little makes a mickle.
The greatest monarch on the proudest throne, is oblig'd to sit upon his own arse.
The Master piece of Man, is to live to the purpose.
He that steals the old man's supper, do's him no wrong.
A countryman between 2 Lawyers, is like a fish between two cats.
He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
The miser's cheese is the wholesomest.
Love & lordship hate companions.
The nearest way to come at glory, is to do that for conscience which we do for glory.
He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books.
Poor Dick, eats like a well man, and drinks like a sick.
After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.
Love, Cough, & a Smoke, can't be well hid.
Well done is better than well said.
No better relation than a prudent & faithful Friend.
The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.
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A Bit of Wisdom from the 1736 Poor Richard's Almanac |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 04/17/2024 12:02 PM
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Philadelphia, PA...Our Favorite Founding Father is Ben Franklin. He didn't just help found our country during the 1776 era. For two generations before he helped sell concepts of Freedom, Self-Determination & Inalienable rights. From 1733 to 1758 Poor Richards Almanac helped create the unique American identity in a homey, common sense, aspirational way. A few Bits of Wisdom from 1735...
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the Philosophers-Stone.
He that would live in peace & at ease, Must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees.
Fish & Visitors stink in 3 days.
He that can have Patience, can have what he will.
God helps them that help themselves.
Keep flax from fire, and youth from gaming.
Diligence is the mother of Good-Luck.
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
He that lives upon Hope, dies fasting. |
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A Bit of Wisdom from the 1735 Poor Richard's Almanac |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 04/10/2024 08:12 PM
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Philadelphia, PA...Our Favorite Founding Father is Ben Franklin. He didn't just help found our country during the 1776 era. For two generations before he helped sell concepts of Freedom, Self-Determination & Inalienable rights. From 1733 to 1758 Poor Richards Almanac helped create the unique American identity in a homey, common sense, aspirational way. A few Bits of Wisdom from 1735...
1735
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Nothing but Money, Is Sweeter than Honey.
Are you angry that others disappoint you? remember you cannot depend upon yourself.
Bad Commentators spoil the best of books,
Approve not of him who commends all you say.
The King's cheese is half wasted in parings; but no matter, 'tis made of the peoples milk.
By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable.
Full of courtesie, full of craft.
Keep thy shop, & thy shop will keep thee.
Look before, or you'll find yourself behind.
Necessity never made a good bargain.
Be slow in chusing a Friend, slower in changing.
A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches.
The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach to his meat.
Three may keep a Secret, if two of them are dead. |
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A Bit of Wisdom from Winston Churchill on His Birthday |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 04/09/2024 04:37 PM
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Washington, DC...~ Sir Winston Churchill 30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965. A Bit of Wisdom from Winston Churchill on Winston Churchill Day. On April 9, 1963, Winston Churchill was made the first honorary citizen of the United States. Celebrated today as Winston Churchill Day, April 9
"Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival."
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
"I never worry about action, but only inaction."
"Never, never, never give up."
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A Bit of Wisdom from the 1734 Poor Richard's Almanac |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 04/04/2024 08:24 PM
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Philadelphia, PA...Our Favorite Founding Father is Ben Franklin. He didn't just help found our country during the 1776 era. For two generations before he helped sell concepts of Freedom, Self-Determination & Inalienable rights. From 1733 to 1758 Poor Richards Almanac helped create the unique American identity in a homey, common sense, aspirational way. A few Bits of Wisdom from 1734...
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You cannot pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy fair wife without danger of horns.
Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, not what you please.
Take this remark from Richard poor and lame, Whate'er's begun in anger ends in shame.
No man e'er was glorious, who was not laborious.
All things are easy to Industry, All things difficult to Sloth.
Don't think to hunt two hares with one dog.
Better slip with foot than tongue.
Hope of gain, lessens pain.
All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful.
Would you persuade, speak of Interest, not of Reason.
Happy's the Wooing that's not long a doing.
Jack Little sow'd little, & little he'll reap.
Do good to thy Friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.
An innocent Plowman is more worthy than a vicious Prince.
He that is rich need not live sparingly, and he that can live sparingly need not be rich.
An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow. |
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A Bit of Wisdom from the 1733 Poor Richard's Almanac |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 04/02/2024 09:59 AM
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Philadelphia, PA...Our Favorite Founding Father is Ben Franklin. He didn't just help found our country during the 1776 era. For two generations before he helped sell concepts of Freedom, Self-Determination & Inalienable rights. From 1733 to 1758 Poor Richards Almanac helped create the unique American identity in a homey, common sense, aspirational way. A few Bits of Wisdom from 1733...
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Light purse, heavy heart.
He's a Fool that makes his Doctor his Heir.
Hunger never saw bad bread.
Great Talkers, little Doers.
Fools make feasts and wise men eat 'em.
The poor have little, beggars none, the rich too much, enough not one.
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
The proof of gold is fire, the proof of woman, gold; the proof of man, a woman.
He that lies down with Dogs, shall rise up with fleas.
Distrust & caution are the parents of security.
He is ill cloth'd, who is bare of Virtue.
Nothing more like a Fool, than a drunken Man.
Innocence is its own Defence. |
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A Bit of Wisdom from Fred Rogers |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 03/21/2024 04:00 PM
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Pittsburg, PA...Fred McFeely Rogers March 20, 1928 – February 27, 2003. Mister Rogers, Presbyterian minister. Host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, which ran from 1968 to 2001.
"I think everybody longs to be loved and longs to know that he or she is lovable. And, consequently, the greatest thing that we can do is to help somebody know that they're loved and capable of loving."
"Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood."
"Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people."
"To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now."
"Deep and simple are far, far more important than shallow and complicated and fancy."
"Love isn't a perfect state of caring. It's an active noun, like 'struggle." |
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A Bit of Wisdom from Dr. David Livingstone |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 03/21/2024 09:16 AM
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Blantyre, Scotland...David Livingstone 19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873. Scottish Physician, Congregationalist, Pioneer Christian Missionary
"If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all."
"I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose."
"All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.'
"I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward."
"Fear God and work hard." |
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A Bit of Wisdom from Wyatt Earp |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 03/19/2024 11:38 AM
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Los Angeles, CA...Wyatt Earp March 19, 1848 – January 13, 1929. American lawman and gambler in the American West, including Dodge City, Deadwood, Tombstone & Alaska.
"The most important lesson I learned...was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time. The second was that, if I hoped to live on the frontier, I would shun flashy trick-shooting--grandstand play--as I would poison...In all my life as a frontier peace officer, I did not know a really proficient gunfighter who had anything but contempt for the gun-fanner, or the man who literally shot from the hip."
“Fast is fine, but accuracy is final. You must learn to be slow in a hurry.”
“Are you going to do something or just stand there and bleed?”
“The less you bet, the more you lose when you win.”
“Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.” |
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