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<\/a><\/p>\nOur Favorite Founding Father is Ben Franklin. He didn’t just help found our country during the 1776 era.\u00a0 \u00a0For 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…<\/p>\n
1734
\nYou cannot pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy fair wife without danger of horns.<\/p>\n
Without justice, courage is weak. Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, not what you please.<\/p>\n
Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.<\/p>\n
Take this remark from Richard poor and lame, Whate’er’s begun in anger ends in shame.<\/p>\n
What one relishes, nourishes.<\/p>\n
No man e’er was glorious, who was not laborious.<\/p>\n
All things are easy to Industry, All things difficult to Sloth.<\/p>\n
If you ride a Horse, sit close and tight, If you ride a Man, sit easy and light.<\/p>\n
Don’t think to hunt two hares with one dog.<\/p>\n
Fools multiply folly.<\/p>\n
Beauty & Folly are old companions.<\/p>\n
Better slip with foot than tongue.<\/p>\n
Hope of gain, lessens pain.<\/p>\n
Wedlock, as old Men note, hath likened been, Unto a publick Crowd or common Rout; Where those that are without would fain get in, And those that are within would fain get out.<\/p>\n
Grief often treads upon the Heels of Pleasure,<\/p>\n
Marry\u2019d in Haste, we oft repent at Leisure; Some by Experience find these Words misplac\u2019d, Marry\u2019d at Leisure, they repent in Haste.<\/p>\n
Where there’s Marriage without Love, there will be Love without Marriage.<\/p>\n
Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise.<\/p>\n
Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long after they begin to parly.<\/p>\n
Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive.<\/p>\n
All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful.<\/p>\n
Would you persuade, speak of Interest, not of Reason.<\/p>\n
Happy’s the Wooing that’s not long a doing.<\/p>\n
Jack Little sow’d little, & little he’ll reap.<\/p>\n
Do good to thy Friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.<\/p>\n
A good Man is seldom uneasy, an ill one never easy.<\/p>\n
Teach your child to hold his tongue, he’ll learn fast enough to speak.<\/p>\n
Don’t value a man for the Quality he is of, but for the Qualities he possesses.<\/p>\n
As Charms are nonsense, Nonsense is a Charm.<\/p>\n
He that cannot obey, cannot command.<\/p>\n
An innocent Plowman is more worthy than a vicious Prince.<\/p>\n
He that is rich need not live sparingly, and he that can live sparingly need not be rich.<\/p>\n
If you wou’d be reveng’d of your enemy, govern your self.<\/p>\n
A wicked Hero will turn his back to an innocent coward.<\/p>\n
Laws like to Cobwebs catch small Flies, Great one break thro’ before your eyes.<\/p>\n
An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow.<\/p>\n
Drink Water, Put the Money in your Pocket, and leave the Dry-bellyach in the Punchbowl.<\/p>\n
When ’tis fair be sure to take your Great coat with you.<\/p>\n
He does not possess Wealth, it possesses him.<\/p>\n
Necessity has no Law; I know some Attorneys of the name.<\/p>\n
Onions can make, ev’n Heirs and Widows weep.<\/p>\n
Strange, that he who lives by Shifts, can seldom shift himself.<\/p>\n
As sore places meet most rubs, proud folks meet most affronts.<\/p>\n
The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, is to save all the Money they can touch.<\/p>\n
He that waits upon Fortune, is never sure of a Dinner.<\/p>\n
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.<\/p>\n
Marry your Son when you will, but your Daughter when you can.<\/p>\n
Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then shou’d they become acquainted.<\/p>\n
If you would have Guests merry with your cheer, Be so your self, or so at least appear.<\/p>\n
Reader, farewell, all Happiness attend thee: May each New Year better and richer find thee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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