{"id":204951,"date":"2026-09-11T14:55:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T21:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=204951"},"modified":"2026-09-11T14:55:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T21:55:01","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-the-1744-poor-richards-almanac-american-dream-origins-day-twelve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=204951","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from the 1744 Poor Richard\u2019s Almanac (American Dream Origins Day Twelve)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia, PA…Our 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 Richard’s Almanac helped create the unique American identity in a homey, common sense, aspirational way. A few Bits of Wisdom from 1744…<\/p>\n

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1744
\nHe that drinks his Cyder alone, Let him catch his Horse alone.
\nWho is strong? He that can conquer his bad Habits.
\nWho is rich? He that rejoices in his Portion.
\nHe that has not got a Wife, is not yet a compleat Man.
\nWhat you would seem to be, be really.
\nIf you’d lose a troublesome Visitor, lend him Money.
\nTart Words make no Friends: a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a Gallon of Vinegar.
\nMake haste slowly.
\nHear Reason, or she’ll make you feel her.
\nGive me yesterday’s Bread, this Day’s Flesh, and last Year’s Cyder.
\nGod heals, and the Doctor takes the Fees.
\nSloth (like Rust) consumes faster than Labour wears: the used Key is always bright.
\nKeep thou from the Opportunity, and God will keep thee from the Sin.
\nWhere there’s no Law, there’s no Bread.
\nAs Pride increases, Fortune declines.
\nThe same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.
\nHe who multiplies Riches multiplies Cares.
\nThose who are fear’d, are hated.
\nThe Things which hurt, instruct.
\nA soft Tongue may strike hard.
\nA true Friend is the best Possession.
\nEpitaph on a Scolding Wife by her Husband.
\nHere my poor Bridget’s Corps doth lie, she is at rest, and so am I.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia, PA…Our 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 Richard’s Almanac helped create the unique American identity in a homey, common sense, aspirational way. A few […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":174959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-quotes","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/PoorRichardBan.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204952,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204951\/revisions\/204952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/174959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}