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THE FRANKLIN YEAR BOOK
Uniform
with this Volume
The Lincoln Year Book. Axioms and
Aphorisms
from the Great Emancipator
for
Every Day
in the Year.
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THE
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YEAR
BOOK
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MORALS FROM THE
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Copyright,
1907,
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& Co.
Published October 12,
1907
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FEBRUARY
14,
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Deny self, for self's
sake.
The noblest
question
in the world
is,
What
good
can I do
in it?
JANUARY
But dost thou love
life
? Then do not
squander
time,
for
that is the
stuff life
is made
of.
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FRANKLIN
YEAR BOOK
JANUARY
FIRS T
Resolve to
perform
what
you ought;
perform
without fail what
you
resolve.
SECOND
Drink water.
THIRD
He that
idly
loses five
shillings'
worth
of time loses five
shillings,
and
might
as
prudently
throw five
shillings
into the sea.
FOURTH
Industry pays
debts,
while
despair
in-
creaseth them.
FIF TH
We
may give
advice,
but we can not
give
conduct.
A
E
JANUARY
SIXTH
Necessity
never made a
good bargain.
SB VE NTH
If
you
would have a faithful
servant,
and one that
you
like,
serve
yourself.
EIGHTH
Three
may keep
a
secret,
if two of
them be dead.
NINTH
They
that will not be counselled can
not be
helped.
TENTH
Keep thy shop
and
thy shop
will
keep
thee.
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FRANKLIN YEAR BOOK
JANUARY
ELE VENTH
When the well is
dry, they
know the
worth of water.
TWELF TH
If
you
would know the value of
money,
go
and
try
to borrow some.
TH I R TEENTH
An old
young
man will be a
young
old
man.
F O U RTE EN T H
It is easier to build two
chimneys
than
to
keep
one in fuel.
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F I F TEENTH
Add
frugality,
if we would make our
industry certainly
successful.
JANUARY
SIXTEENTH
He that can have
patience
can have
what he will.
S E V E NT E E N T H
It is
prodigious
the
quantity
of
good
that
may
be done
by
one
man,
if he will
make a business of it.
EI G H TEEN T H
A man's own care is
profitable.
NINE TEENTH
Covetousness is ever attended with
solicitude and
anxiety.
TWE NT I E T H
To bear other
people's
afflictions,
every
one has
courage enough
and to
spare.
JANUARY
TWE NT Y
-
FIRS T
There are
lazy
minds as well as
lazy
bodies.
TWENTY- SECOND
Wealth is not his that has
it,
but his
that
enjoys
it.
TWE N TY-TH I RD
Always taking
out of the meal tub and
never
putting
in soon
gets
to the bottom.
TWENTY-FO U R TH
Creditors have better memories than
debtors.
TWENTY-FI F TH
Avoid extremes.
TWENTY- SIXTH
In the affairs of this world men are
saved,
not
by
faith,
but
by
want of it.
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JANUARY
TWENTY- SE VEN T H
What vast additions to the conven-
iences and comforts of
living might
mankind have
acquired,
if the
money
spent
in war had been
employed
in
works of
public utility.
TWENTY- EI G H TH
A
ploughman
on his
legs
is
higher
than a
gentleman
on his knees.
TWENTY-NINTH
Grace thou
thy
house,
and let not that
grace
thee.
THIRTIETH
Not to oversee workmen is to leave
them
your purse open.
TH I R TY
-
FIRS T
Be not disturbed at trifles.
FEBRUARY
The most
acceptable
service
of
God is the do-
ing good
to man.
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YEAR
BOOK
FEBRUARY
FIRS T
Diligence
is the mother of
good
luck.
SECOND
Because
they
look
pretty,
how
many
want to have them !
THIRD
The stars are seldom
disappointed.
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FOURTH
Pride meets with
provocations
and
disturbances
upon
almost
every
occa-
sion.
F I F T H
Sal
laughs
at
everything you
why
? because she has fine teeth.
say;
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FEBRUARY
SIXTH
Love
well,
whip
well.
SEVENTH
Tolerate no uncleanliness.
EI G H TH
My
father convinced me that
nothing
was useful which was not honest.
NINTH
A man
may,
if he knows not how to
save as he
gets, keep
his nose all his life
to the
grindstone.
TENTH
Keep your eyes open
before
marriage,
half-shut afterwards.
THE
FRANKLIN YEAR BOOK
FEBRUARY
ELE VENTH
Experience keeps
a dear
school,
but
fools will learn in no other.
TWELF TH
Happy
that
nation,
fortunate that
age,
whose
history
is not
diverting.
TH I R TEENTH
Search others for their
virtues,
thyself
for
thy
vices.
FO U R TEENTH
Learn to be
quiet
and
respect
each
other's
rights.
F I F TEENTH
In this
country
we are not so afraid of
being laughed
at.
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FRANKLIN
YEAR BOOK
FEBRUARY
SIXTEENTH
Hast thou virtue?
acquire
also the
graces
and beauties of virtue.
5 E VENTEENTH
By diligence
and
patience
the mouse
ate in two the cable.
EIGHTEENTH
It is of the essence of
envy
to be un-
easy
and
disquieted.
NINE TEENTH
As we must account for
every
idle
word,
so we must for
every
idle silence.
TWENT
I E TH
Let
thy
discontents be
thy
secrets.
FEBRUARY
TWENTY- FIRS T
Want of care does us more
damage
than want of
knowledge.
TWENTY- SECOND
If
you
would be
wealthy,
think of sav-
ing
as well as
getting.
TWEN TY-THIRD
As to old
age,
it will be incurable this
year,
because of
years past.
TWENTY- F O U R T H
Tricks and
treachery
are the
practice
of fools that have not wit
enough
to be
honest.
TWEN T Y- F I F T H
Avoid
trifling
conversation.
FEBRUARY
TWENTY- SIX T H
Silks and
satins,
scarlet and
velvets,
put
out the kitchen fire.
TWENTY- S B VENTH
Let
thy
handmaid be
faithful,
strong,
and
homely.
TWENTY- EI G H T H
Forbear
resenting injuries
as much as
you
think
they
deserve.
TWENTY-NINTH
Those have a short Lent who owe
money
to be
paid
at Easter.
MARCH
All true
happiness,
as all that is
truly beautiful,
can
only
result
from
order.
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MARCH
FIRS T
Opportunity
is the
great
bawd.
SECOND
We know not how soon we
may
have
a fresh occasion for
friends,
for
credit,
and for
reputation.
THIRD
I found
myself obliged
to
comply,
con-
vinced of the
folly
of
being
on bad terms
with those one is to live with
continually.
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FOUR T H
The
eye
of a master will do more
work than both his hands.
F I F r H
It is foolish to
lay
out
money
in a
pur-
chase of
repentance.
MARCH
SIXTH
Hard names and
many
were bestowed
on me.
S E VBNTH
Whenever we
attempt
to amend the
scheme of
Providence,
we had need be
circumspect,
lest we do more harm than
good.
EIGHTH
It would not be
altogether
absurd if a
man were to thank God for his
vanity
among
the other comforts of life.
NINTH
Let
thy
child's first lesson be obedi-
ence,
and the second will be what thou
wilt.
TENTH
Remember that credit is
money.
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FRANKLIN YEAR BOOK
MARCH
E L E V E NTH
There are no
gains
without
pains
;
then
help,
hands,
for I have no lands.
TWELF TH
The
way
to
wealth,
if
you
desire
it,
is
as
plain
as the
way
to market.
TH I R TEE NTH
Don't throw stones at
your neighbors,
if
your
own windows are
glass.
FOUR TEENTH
A man must have a
great
deal of
vanity
who
believes,
and a
good
deal of
boldness who
affirms,
that all the doc-
trines he holds are
true,
and all he
rejects
are false.
F I F TEENTH
There are
numbers, who,
perhaps,
fear
less the
being
in hell than out of fashion.
MARCH
SIXTEEN T H
If
you
can
gain
the
great
to an exem-
plary
life,
wonderful
changes
will follow
in the manners of the lower ranks.
S E YEN TEEN T H
Form the
pronunciation
of
youth
on
the best models.
EI G H TEEN T H
I would rather have it
said,
He lived
H
usefully,
than,
He died rich.
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NINE TE E NTH
Ignorance
is often attended with cre-
dulity
when
knavery
would mislead
it,
and with
suspicion
when
honesty
would
set it
right.
TWENTIETH
Fondness for
ourselves,
rather than
malevolence to
others,
I take to be the
general
source of censure and
backbiting.
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YEAR BOOK
MARCH
TWENTY- FIRS T
Ideas will
string
themselves,
like
ropes
of onions.
TWENTY- SECOND
Not
being
used to
liberty, they
know
not how to make a modest use of it.
TWEN TY-TH I R D
Wise and
good
men are the
strength
of a state.
TWENTY- FO U R TH
If
you
will not hear
Reason,
she will
surely rap your
knuckles.
TWENTY- F I F TH
He that
possesses anything
he has
bought, pays
interest for the use of it.
TWENTY- SIXTH
The
greater
the common fashionable
expense
of a rank of
people,
the more
cautious
they
are of
marriage.
MARCH
TWENTY- S E VENTH
Eat not to dullness
;
drink not to ele-
vation.
TWENTY- E I GH TH
To distress is to weaken.
TWENTY-NINTH
Those who can not
get
land must
labor for those who have it.
THIRTIETH
He that
by
the
plough
would thrive
Himself must either hold or drive.
TH I R TY
-
FIRS T
She that will eat her breakfast in her
bed,
And
spend
the morn in
dressing
of her
head,
And sit at dinner like a maiden
bride,
And talk of
nothing
all
day
but of
pride
;
God in his
mercy may
do much to save
her,
But what a case is he in that doth have
her!
APRIL
Be slow in
choosing
a
friend,
slower in
chang-
ing.
APRIL
FIRS T
He has
paid
dear,
very
dear,
for his
whistle.
SECOND
Buy
what thou hast no need
of,
and
ere
long
thou shalt sell
thy
necessaries.
THIRD
Continual
dropping
wears
away
stones.
FOURTH
The riches of a
country
are to be
valued
by
the
quantity
of labor its inhab-
itants are
able
to
purchase.
F I F TH
Sloth shortens life.
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APRIL
SIXTH
Many
estates are
spent
in the
getting,
Since women for tea forsook
spinning
and
knitting,
And men for
punch
forsook
hewing
and
splitting.
SB V BNTH
em
The
public money,
raised from
all,
belongs
to all.
EI G H TH
Employ thy
time well if thou meanest
to
gain
leisure.
NINTH
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Most
people
dislike
vanity
in
others,
whatever share
they
have of it them-
selves.
TENTH
Many
have been ruined
by buying
good
pennyworths.
APRIL
E LE VE NT H
There are three faithful
friends,
an old
wife,
an old
dog,
and
ready money.
TWELF TH
Plough deep
while
sluggards sleep,
and
you
shall have corn to sell and
keep.
TH I R TE E NTH
Never
making
a St.
Monday
recom-
(f
mended me to the master.
FO U R TEENTH
One sword often
keeps
another in the
scabbard.
F I F TEENTH
He that lives
upon hopes
will die fast-
ing.
APRIL
SIX TEEN T H
Those who have much business must
have much
pardon.
S E VENTEENTH
Talents for the education of
youth
are
the
gift
of God.
E I G H TEENTH
Having plenty
of merit in
himself,
he
Mj
was not
jealous
of the
appearance
of
merit in others.
NINE TEENTH
I should have no
objection
to a
repeti-
tion of life from the
beginning, only asking
the
advantages
authors have in a revised
edition to correct some faults in the first.
TWE NTI E TH
God
heals;
the doctor takes the fee.
APRIL
TWENTY- FI R S T
It is a
long peace,
indeed,
as well as a
long
lane,
that has no
ending.
TWENTY- SECOND
Ambition has its
disappointments
to
sour
us,
but never the
good
fortune to
satisfy
us.
TWE N TY- THIRD
Sloth,
like
rust,
consumes faster than
',,,,
labor wears.
TWENTY- FOURTH
Creditors are a
superstitious
set,
great
observers of set
days
and times.
TWENTY- FIF TH
If
you
would have
your
business
done,
go;
if
not,
send.
APRIL
TWENTY- SIXTH
In this world
nothing
is certain but
death and taxes.
TWENTY- SEVENTH
Nothing gives
an author so
great
pleasure
as to find his works
respectfully
quoted by
others.
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TWENTY- EI G H TH
Opinions
should be
judged
of
by
their
influences and effects.
TWENTY-NINTH
The fewer our old friends
become,
the
more let us love one another.
TH I R TIE TH
He that
goes
a-
borrowing goes
a-
sorrowing.
MAY
Freedom is not a
gift
bestowed
upon
us
by
other
men,
but a
right
that
belongs
to us
by
the
laws
of
God and nature.
MAY
FIRS T
Three removes are as bad as a fire.
SECOND
I never saw an oft-removed tree
Nor
yet
an oft-removed
family
That throve as well as those that settled
,
be.
THIRD
I had a tolerable character to
begin
with;
I valued it
properly,
and deter-
mined to
preserve
it.
FOURTH
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There are croakers in
every country.
F I F TH
God
gives
all
things
to
industry.
MAY
SIXTH
Pride is as loud a
beggar
as
Want,
and a
great
deal more
saucy.
S E V E NTH
This
year
the stone blind shall see but
very
little.
EI G H TH
Since thou art not sure of a
minute,
1 throw not
away
an hour.
NINTH
All wars are
follies,
very expensive
and
very
mischievous ones.
TENTH
He
always speaks
the
thing
he
means,
which he is never afraid or ashamed to
do,
because he knows he
always
means
well.
MAY
ELE VENTH
The
passions
can never fix us in a
proper composure
and
acquiescence
of
mind.
TWELF TH
Women and
wine,
game
and
deceit,
Make the wealth small and the want
great.
TH I R TEENTH
The
sleeping
fox catches no
poultry.
F O U R TEENTH
I am
apt
to
speak
in the
singular
number.
F I F TEENTH
It is no more in a man's
power
to
think than to look like another.
MAY
SIX TEEN T H
Scandal,
like other
virtues,
is in
part
its own reward.
S E YEN TEEN T H
The used
key
is
always bright,
as Poor
Richard
says.
E I G H TEEN T H
There should be a mutual
dependence
between
governors
and
governed.
NINE TEE NTH
Small
things appear great
to those in
small circumstances.
TWE N TIE T H
To receive credit and character as a
tradesman,
I took care not
only
to be
in
reality
industrious and
frugal,
but to
avoid all
appearances
to the
contrary.
MAY
TWENTY- FIRS T
I
thought
so
meanly
of him for
it, that,
when I afterward came into his
situation,
I took care never to imitate it.
TWENTY
-
SECOND
I never was without some
religious
principles.
TWENTY-TH l RD
He that would thrive must ask his wife.
TWENTY
-
F O U R T H
These
might
all be
good things,
but
g
they
were not the kind of
good things
I
expected.
TWENTY- F I F T H
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I wished to live without
committing
a
fault.
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FRANKLIN YEAR
BOOK
MAY
TWENTY- SIXTH
It is certain that no
country
in the
world
produces naturally
finer
spirits
than ours.
TWENTY- SEVENTH
Let the fair sex be assured that I shall
always
treat them and their affairs with
the utmost
decency
and
respect.
TWENTY- EIGHTH
Heavy
taxes tend to diminish a
people.
TWENTY-NINTH
The
day
comes around before
you
are
aware.
T H I R TIE T H
At a
great pennyworth pause
a while.
TH I R TY- F I R S T
One
to-day
is worth two to-morrows.
JUNE
Virtue alone is
sufficient
to make a man
great,
glorious,
and
happy.
THE
FRANKLIN YEAR BOOK
JUNE
FIRS T
Drive
thy
business,
let not that drive
JR^
thee.
SECOND
Libraries have
improved
the
general
conversation of the
American,
made the
common tradesmen and farmers as in-
telligent
as most
gentlemen
from other
countries,
and
perhaps
have contributed
in some
degree
to the stand so
generally
made
through
the
country
in defence of
their
privileges.
THIRD
Long
habits of virtue have a sensible
effect on the countenance.
FOURTH
Laziness drives so
slowly
that
Poverty
soon overtakes him.
JUNE
FIFTH
While
you
live
expense
is constant
and certain.
SIXTH
When
you
have
bought
one fine
thing
you
must
buy
ten more.
S E VBNTH
Take care of
yourself.
Your life is a
valuable one.
EIGHTH
Hope
of
being
free from care and
labor,
with fear of
penury,
are the
mainsprings
of most
people's industry.
NINTH
Visit
seldom,
and
tarry
but a little
while in a
place.
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YEAR BOOK
JUNE
TENTH
Virtue is the best
guard against
the
many
evils incident to us.
ELE V E NTH
Vital
religion
has
always
suffered
when
orthodoxy
is more
regarded
than
virtue.
TWELF TH
What
great
difference can there be
between
putting yourself up,
or
putting
your neighbor
down?
THIRTEENTH
There are little follies in the behavior
of most men which their best friends are
too tender to
acquaint
them with.
FOUR TEENTH
An
author,
as
such,
ought
to be tried
by
the merit of his
productions only.
JUNE
F I F T F E N T H
There seems to be some
peculiar
charm in the conceit of
finding money.
SIXTEENTH
He is no clown that drives the
plough,
but he that does clownish
things.
S E YEN TEE N T H
How
many impertinences
do we
daily
suffer with
great
uneasiness,
because we
have not
courage enough
to discover
our dislikes?
EI G H TEENTH
Few are
against
me but those who
have reason to fear me.
NINE TEENT
H
What misfortune in
your
pleasures
has
sent
you
to
philosophy
for relief?
JUNE
TWE NT I E TH
Money
can
beget money.
TWENTY- FIRS T
Forage
and want save while
you may;
No
morning
sun lasts the whole
day.
TWENTY- SECOND
What maintains one vice would
bring
up
two children.
TWENTY-THIRD
At the last
day
we shall not be ex-
amined for what we
thought,
but what we
&
did.
TWENTY- F O U R TH
He
only
loves himself well who
rightly
and
judiciously
loves himself.
TWENTY- F I F TH
As to
going
on
petty
errands,
no
boys
love
it,
but all must do it.
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JUNE
TWENTY- SIXTH
Don't
you
know that all wives are in
the
right?
TWENTY- SEVENTH
Self-denial is
really
the
highest
self-
gratificatipn.
TWENTY- EI G H TH
It was about this time I conceived the
bold and arduous
project
of
arriving
at
moral
perfection.
TWENTY-NINTH
Natural
good
and evil are
pleasure
and
pain
;
moral
good
and evil are
pleas-
ure and
pain produced
with intention and
design.
THIRTIETH
Beware of little
expenses.
JULY
A new truth is a
truth;
an old error is an
error.
THE FRANKLIN
YEAR BOOK
JULY
FIRS T
Leisure is time for
doing something
useful.
SECOND
Lying
rides
upon
Debt's back.
THIRD
Industry
need not wish.
FOURTH
They
that can
give up
essential
liberty
to obtain a little
temporary safety
deserve
neither
liberty
nor
safety.
Fi F TH
All
property
seems to me to be the
creature of
public
convention.
JULY
SIXTH
We
may
dislike
things
that are never-
theless
right
in themselves.
SB YEN TH
Fly pleasures,
and
they
will follow
you.
EI G H TH
Never leave that till to-morrow which
you
can do
to-day.
NINTH
Life,
like a dramatic
piece,
should not
only
be conducted with
regularity,
but
it should end
handsomely.
TEN TH
He can have no
rights
to the benefits
of
society
who will not
pay
his club to-
wards the
support
of it.
THE
FRANKLIN YEAR BOOK
JULY
ELE V E NT H
It is easier to
suppress
the first desire
than to
satisfy
all that follow it.
TWELF TH
Remember that
money
is of the
pro-
lific,
generating
nature.
THIRTEENTH
Who has deceived thee as oft as
thy-
self?
FO U RTEENTH
I made the
greater progress
from that
greater
clearness of head and
quicker
apprehension
which
usually
attend tem-
perance
in
eating
and
drinking.
F I F TEENTH
We should not suffer
pride
to
prevent
our
progress
in science.
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FRANKLIN YEAR BOOK
JULY
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SIX TBENTH
His
great
excellence
lay
in a sound
understanding
and solid
judgment
in
pru-
Lt^
dential
matters,
both
public
and
private.
S E YEN TEEN T H
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Pill
Industry, frugality,
and
prudent
econ-
omy
in a wife are a fortune.
E I G H T E EN T H
What is
wit,
or
wealth,
or
form,
or
learning,
when
compared
to virtue ?
NINE T E E NTH
There are none without their faults
;
no,
not one.
TWEN TIE TH
The ideas of
aggrandizement by
con-
quest
are out of fashion.
THE
FRANKLIN
YEAR BOOK
JULY
TWENTY-
F I R S T
If
you
can
perceive
the fruit to be
good,
don't
terrify yourself
that the tree
may
be evil.
TWBN TY- SECOND
He that riseth late must trot all
day,
and shall scarce overtake his business at

night.
TWENTY-T H I RD
Above all
things
I dislike
family quar-
rels.
TWENTY
-
FOURTH
Rather
go
to bed
supperless
than rise
in debt.
TWENTY-
F I F T H
I
escaped being
a
poet,
most
probably ;
r or
r
a
very
bad one.
JULY
TWENTY- SIXTH
Happiness
in this life
depends
rather
upon
internals than externals.
TWENTY
"-
SEVENTH
Pride is the
ground
floor
;
Hope
is
up
one
pair
of stairs.
TWENTY- EI G H T H
The world is too full of
compliments
already.
TWENTY-NINTH
Conversation warms the mind.
TH I R TIE TH
Remember Job suffered and was af-
terwards
prosperous.
TH I RTY- F I RS T
The event God
only
knows.
AUGUST
Use no
hurtful
deceit;
think
innocently
and
justly;
and,
ifyou speak, speak accordingly.
AUGUST
FIRS T
Whenever we
attempt
to amend the
scheme of
Providence,
we had need be
circumspect,
lest we do more harm than
good.
SECOND
Many people
lead bad lives that would
gladly
lead
good
ones,
but do not know
how to make the
change.
THIRD
Sloth makes all
things
difficult.
FOURTH
Get what
you
can,
and what
you get
hold
;
Tis the stone that will turn all
your
lead
into
gold.
F I F TH
The cat in
gloves
catches no mice.
AUGUST
SIXTH
It has been a
pleasure
to me to see
good
workmen use their tools.
SB V E NTH
Most
people
have
naturally
some vir-
tues,
but none have
naturally
all the
virtues.
EI G H T H
There is no rank in natural
knowledge
of
equal dignity
and
importance
with
that of
being
a
good parent,
a
good
child,
a
good
husband or
wife,
a
good neighbor
and
friend,
a
good subject
or citizen.
NINTH
Pride is a
folly
soon
punished.
TENTH
I never doubted the existence of the
Deity,
that he made the
world,
and
governed
it
by
his Providence.
AUGUST
ELE VENTH
Good wives and
good plantations
are
made
by good
husbands.
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TWELF TH
%
Luxury
should never be suffered to
become common.
TH I R TEE NTH
A man is sometimes more
generous
when he has little
money
than when he
has
plenty, perhaps through
fear of
being
thought
to have but little.
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FOUR TE E NTH
Trust
betrayed
is trust bestowed.
F I F TE EN TH
I love to hear of
every good thing
that
tends to increase the number of
good
people.
AUGUST
SIX TEEN TH
Health of
body
is not sufficient to
make us
happy
of itself.
S E V EN TEEN TH
Cut off all
unnecessary
actions.
EI G H TEENTH
Plain honest truth is not the character
of a
compliment.
NINE TEENTH
Idleness and
pride
tax with a heavier
hand than
kings
and
parliaments.
TWE NT I E TH
The mob hate instruction.
TWENTY- EI R S T
Vessels
large may
venture
more,
But little boats should
keep
near shore.
AUGUST
TWENTY- SECOND
There was never
yet
a
truly great
man
who was not at the same time
truly
virtuous.
TWEN TY-T H I R D
No man who can have a
piece
of land
of his
own,
sufficient
by
his labor to sub-
sist his
family
in
plenty,
is
poor enough
to work for a master.
TWENT Y
-
F O U R T H
Fools make feasts and wise men eat
them.
TWENTY- F I F T H
A life of leisure and a life of laziness
are two
things.
TWEN T Y- SIX T H
Many,
without
labor,
would live
by
their wits
only,
but
they
break for want
of stock.
AUGUST
TWENTY- SEVENTH
Speak
not but what
may
benefit others
or
yourself.
TWENTY- EIGHTH
L=^
Be little burdensome and
essentially
useful to friends.
TWENTY-NINTH
He that hath a trade hath an estate.
T H I R TIE T H
A small leak will sink a
great ship.
T H I R T Y- FIRS T
The
great body
of
intelligence among
our
people
surrounds and
overpowers
our
petty
dissensions.
SEPTEMBER
The
proof of gold
is
fire
;
the
proof of
a
woman,
gold;
the
proof of
a
man,
a woman.
SEPTEMBER
FIRS T
Virtue is the best
preservative
of
health.
SECOND
What we call time
enough always
proves
little
enough.
THIRD
At the
working-man's
house
hunger
looks in but dares not enter.
FOUR T H
He that hath a
calling
hath an office
of
profit
and honor.
2
F I F T H
Let no man flatter the
age
with
pre-
tending
that we have arrived at a
perfec-
tion of discoveries.
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SEPTEMBER
SIX T H
While
my
care was
employed
in
guard-
ing against
one
fault,
I was often sur-
prised by
another.
S E V E NTH
Pride that dines on
vanity sups
on
contempt.
EI G H T H
He wished to
please everybody
; and,
having
little to
give,
he
gave expectations.
NINTH
The foolish
part
of mankind will make
wars from time to time with each
other,
not
having
sense
enough
otherwise to
settle their differences.
TENTH
We
ought always
to do what
appears
best to be
done,
without much
regarding
what others
may
think of it.
SEPTEMBER
E LB VBNTH
You
may
have an
opportunity
of assist-
ing
with an
equal
sum a
stranger
who
has
equal
need of it. Do so.
By
that
means
you
will
discharge any obligation
you may suppose yourself
under to me.
Enjoin
him to do the same
upon
occa-
sion.
By pursuing
such a
practice
much
good may
be done with a little
money.
TWE L F T H
Stick to it
steadily.
T H I R TEE NTH
Moral and
political rights
sometimes
differ,
and are sometimes both subdued
by might.
FOUR TEE NTH
QQLgP
Friends have been
my
treasure.
SEPTEMBER
F I F T E E NTH
There are minds who would
give
credit
to a man that lived 3000
years ago,
or at
3000
leagues
distance,
rather than to a
neighbor,
or even to a friend.
SIX TEEN T H
Never be
discouraged.
5 E VENTEE NTH
"Blessed are the
peacemakers,"
is,
I
suppose,
to be understood in the other
world,
for in this
they
are
frequently
cursed.
EI G H TEENTH
The truth
may
not
always
be
proper.
NINE TEENTH
The surest
way
to obtain liberal
help
from others is
vigorously
to
help
our-
selves.
SEPTEMBER
TWB NT I E T H
When I was a
boxing boy,
it was al-
lowed,
even after an
enemy
said he had
enough,
to
give
him a
rising
blow.
TWENTY- FIRS T
Time will smooth
away
all difficulties.
TWENTY- SECOND
Frauds are
vastly
more
pernicious
than
simple
thefts.
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Reconciliation is a sweet
expression.
TWENTY- FO U R TH
None abuse confidence but those who
possess
it.
TWEN TY-F I FTH
Let all
your things
have their
places.
SEPTEMBER
TWENTY- SIX TH
Let us mind our own business.
TWENTY- SB VENTH
Hope
and faith
may
be more
firmly
grounded upon charity,
than
charity upon
hope
and faith.
TWENTY- E I G H TH
He that has once done
you
a kindness
will be more
ready
to do
you
another
than he whom
you yourself
have
obliged.
TWEN TY-NIN TH
Virtue is not secure until its
practice
has become a habitude.
THIRTIETH
OCTOBER
A little
neglect may
cause a
great
mischief
:
for
want
of
a nail the shoe was
lost;
for
want
of
a shoe the horse was
lost;
for
want
of
a horse
the rider was lost.
OCTOBER
FIRS T
Early
to bed and
early
to rise
Makes a man
healthy, wealthy,
and wise.
SECOND
The whim suited me better from the
cheapness
of it.
THIRD
If
you
were a
servant,
would
you
not
be ashamed that a
good
master should
catch
you
idle ? Are
you
not
your
own
master?
FOURTH
The
prejudices
of
disrespect
between
nations
prevail only among
the inferior
ranks.
F I F TH
Be
always employed
in
something
useful.
OCTOBER
SIX T H
The
philanthropist,
who wishes the
good
of his own
country
and of
mankind,
must be the bulrush
bending
to the
storm,
and not the
sturdy
oak,
unavail-
ingly resisting.
SB YEN TH
Few in
public
affairs act with a view
to the
good
of mankind.
EIGHTH
God will
certainly
reward virtue and
punish
vice,
either here or hereafter.
NINTH
The
judgment
of a whole
people,
es-
pecially
of a free
people,
is looked
upon
as infallible.
TENTH
Men I find to be a sort of
beings very
badly
constructed.
THE
FRANKLIN YEAR BOOK
OCTOBER
ELE V E NTH f
Great affairs sometimes take their rise
from small
circumstances.
TWELF TH
Americans do not
enquire
concerning
a
stranger,
What is he ?
but,
What can
he do?
TH I R TEE N T H
Lost time is never found
again.
FOUR
TEEN TH
I made
myself
as
tidy
as I
could.
F I F
TEENTH
Let kind offices
go
round.
SIX
TEENTH
Trust not too much to others.
OCTOBER
SEVEN TEEN T H
Pride breakfasted with
Plenty,
dined
with
Poverty,
and
supped
with
Infamy.
EI G H TEEN T H
I shall never
ask,
never
refuse,
nor
ever
resign
an office.
NINE TEENTH
History
is full of the errors of states
and
princes.
TWENTI E TH
When men are
employed they
are
best contented.
TWENTY- FIRS T
Disputing, contradicting,
and
confuting
people
are
generally
unfortunate in their
affairs.
OCTOBER
TWENTY- SECOND
Human
felicity
is
produced
not so
much
by great pieces
of
good
fortune
that seldom
happen
as
by
little advan-
tages
that occur
every day.
TWEN TY-T H I R D
Not
knowing
but that he
might
be in
the
right,
I let him
enjoy
his
opinions,
which I take to be the best
way.
TWENTY- F O U R T H
Without virtue man can have no
hap-
piness.
TWENTY- F I F TH
I think no
pleasure
innocent that is to
man hurtful.
TWEN TY- S I XT H
J7Wf
Here comes the orator with his flood
of words and his
drop
of reason.
THE
FRANKLIN YEAR BOOK
OCTOBER
TWENTY- SEVENTH
Money
is
necessary
to introduce econ-
omy,
while,
at the same
time,
economy
is
necessary
to obtain
money.
TWEN TY-EIGHTH
No man is wise at all times and in all
things,
but some are more
frequently
wise than others.
TWEN TY-N IN TH
I love
company,
chat,
a
laugh,
a
glass,
and even a
song
as well as ever.
THIRTIETH
I made that man
my enemy by doing
him too much kindness. It is the hon-
estest
way
of
acquiring
an
enemy.
TH I R TY
-
FIRS T
What
repeated
follies are
repeated
wars !
NOVEMBER
Alexanderand
Caesar,
those renowned
generals,
received more
faithful
services,
and
performed
greater
actions,
by
means
of
the love their soldiers
bore
them,
than
they probably
would have
done,
if,
instead
of being
beloved and
respected, they
had
been hated and
feared.
NOVEMBER
FIRS T
While a
party
is
carrying
on a
general
design,
each man has his
particular pri-
vate interest in view.
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SECOND
Handle
your
tools without mittens.
THIRD
Contrary
habits must be
broken,
and
good
ones
acquired
and
established,
be-
fore we can have
any dependence
on a
steady,
uniform rectitude of conduct.
FOURTH
Few in
public
affairs act from a mere
view of the
good
of their
country,
what-
ever
they may pretend.
F I F T H
Now I have a
sheep
and a cow
every-
body
bids me
good-morrow.
NOVEMBER
SIX T H
Mankind are all of a
family.
S E VENTH
Foes counteract the mischief flatterers
might
do us.
EIGHTH
Nothing
in human affairs and schemes
is
perfect,
and
perhaps
that is the cause
'
of our
opinions.
NINTH
I think all the heretics I have known
have been virtuous men.
TEN T H
People
that lead a
long
life and drink
to the bottom of the
cup
must
expect
some of the
dregs.
NOVEMBER
ELE VE NTH
If our desires are to the
things
of this
world,
they
are never to be satisfied.
TWE L F T H
Let each
part
of
your
business have
its time.
T H I R TEENTH
Even if I could conceive that I had
completely
overcome
pride,
I should
probably
be
proud
of
my humility.
FO URTEENTH
There could not be a more
potent
counterpoise
to the
designs
of ambitious
men than a multitude that feared and
hated ambition.
F I F TEENTH
Who dainties love shall
beggars prove.
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NOVEMBER
SIXTEEN T H
Enemies serve to
put
us
upon
correct-
ing
the faults we
have,
and
avoiding
those we are in
danger
of
having.
S E VENTEENTH
So convenient a
thing
is it to be a
reasonable"
creature,
since it enables one
to make a reason for
everything
one has
a mind to.
EI G H TEENTH
In success be moderate.
NINE TEENTH
For these
fifty years past
no one has
ever heard a
dogmatical expression
es
cape
me.
TWENTI E T H
A fat kitchen makes a lean will.
NOVEMBER
TWENTY- F I R S T
There is neither sin nor shame in
knitting
a
pair
of
stockings.
TWENTY- SECOND
I
grew
convinced that
truth,
sincerity,
and
integrity
in
dealings
between man
and man were of the utmost
importance
to the
felicity
of life.
TWENTY-TH I RD
The second vice is
lying,
the first is
running
in debt.
TWENTY- F O U R T H
If time be of all
things
the most
pre-
cious,
wasting
time must be the
greatest
prodigality.
TWENTY- F I FT H
The married state
is,
after all our
jokes,
the
happiest, being
conformable
to our natures.
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BOOK
NOVEMBER
TWBN TY- S I XT H
Lazy
workmen are
commonly
ob-
served to be more
extravagant
in their
demands than the
industrious, for,
if
they
jjE
have not more for their
work,
they
can
not live as well.
TWE NT Y-SEVENTH
There never
was,
and never will
be,
a
good
war nor a bad
peace.
TWENTY- EIGHTH
The foundation of all virtue and
hap-
piness
is
thinking rightly.
TWENTY-NINTH
So
pursue pleasure
as not to
give
for
it more than it is worth.
T H I R TIE T H
I have
long
been accustomed to re-
ceive more
blame,
as well as more
praise,
than I have deserved.
DECEMBER
If
we were as industrious to become
good
as to
make ourselves
great,
we should become
really
great by being good.
DECEMBER
FIRS T
The use of
money
is all the
advantage
there is in
having money.
SECOND
There 's small
revenge
in
words,
but
words
may
be
greatly revenged.
THIRD
There 's
nothing
better to be said
Than that
they
've eat
up
all their
bread,
Drunk all their
drink,
and
gone
to bed.
FOURTH
Necessity
knows no law. I know
some
attorneys
of the name.
F I F TH
Poverty
often
deprives
a man of all
spirit
and virtue.
DECEMBER
SIX TH
Kindness from men I can
only
return
on their fellow men.
S E YEN TH
The
pleasures
in this world are rather
from God's
goodness
than our own merit.
E I G H TH
Do
good
to
thy
friend to
keep
him,
to
thy enemy
to
gain
him.
NINTH
Light up
the candle of
industry
and
economy.
TENTH
When
employed
in
serving
others,
I
do not look
upon myself
as
conferring
favors,
but as
paying
debts.
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FRANKLIN
YEAR BOOK
DECEMBER
E L E V E NT H
Lose no time.
TWE L F TH
I made it a rule to forbear all direct
7fi\
contradiction to the sentiments of
others,
St
and all
positive
assertion of
my
own.
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T H I R TEEN TH
The more affectionate relations are to
each
other,
the more
they
are
respected
by
the rest of the world.
F O U R TEEN TH
Work while it is called
to-day.
F I F T E ENTH
It is hard for an
empty bag
to stand
^~
i
upright.
DECEMBER
SIX TEEN TH
Suppositions,
however
ingenious,
are
often mere mistakes.
S E VENTE E N TH
A man is not
completely
born until he
is dead.
E I G H TEEN TH
I was
surprised
to find
myself
so much
fuller of faults than I had
imagined.
NINE TEENTH
Be ashamed to catch
yourself
idle.
TWEN TIE TH
A benevolent man should allow a few
faults in
himself,
to
keep
his friends in
countenance.
TWEN T Y- EI R S T
The
diligent spinner
has a
long
shift.
DECEMBER
TWE N TY
-
SECOND
No
qualities
are so
likely
to make a
poor
man's fortune as those of
probity
and
integrity.
TWE N T Y- THIRD
If two
persons equal
in
judgment play ;':%
for a considerable
sum,
he that loves
money
most will lose.
TWENTY- F O U RT H
Increase in me that wisdom which dis-
covers
my
truest interest.
TWENTY- F I F T H
Let no
pleasures tempt
thee,
no
profit
allure
thee,
no ambition
corrupt
thee,
no
example sway
thee,
no
persuasion
move
thee to do
anything
which thou knowest
to be evil
;
so shalt thou live
jollily,
for a
good
conscience is a continual Christ-
mas.
DECEMBER
TWENTY- SIXTH
Nothing
is so
likely
to make a man's
fortune as virtue.
TWENTY
-
SEVENTH
Vicious habits are not hurtful because
they
are
forbidden,
but forbidden because
they
are hurtful.
TWENTY- EIGHTH
It is time for an old
man,
as I
am,
to
be
thinking
of his
great
remove.
TWENT Y-N I NT H
It is
pleasant
to see the world
growing
better and
happier.
T H I R TIE T H
There will be
sleeping enough
in the
grave.
T H I R TY- F I RS T
In
looking
back,
how short the time
seems!
BOSTON
PUBLIC
LIBRARY
3
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05987
577
1
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