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A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and the moon to sand still--and they obeyed.

Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

A small leak will sink a great ship.

For the want of a nail the shoe was lost, For the want of a shoe the horse was lost, For the want of a horse the rider was lost, For the want of a rider the battle was lost, For the want of a battle the kingdom was lost, And all for the want of a horse-shoe nail.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

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 things.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent.

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.

Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything.