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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.

That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

Fidelity is the sister of justice.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from our impatience.

The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.

When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.

Howe, Edgar Watson

No man's credit is as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living.

Howe, Edgar Watson

For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.

Howe, Edgar Watson

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

Howe, Edgar Watson

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

Howe, Edgar Watson

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Howe, Edgar Watson

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

Hubbard, Elbert

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

Hubbard, Elbert

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

Hubbard, Elbert

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Hubbard, Elbert

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Hubbard, Elbert

Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.

Hubbard, Elbert

The man who knows it can?t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's avaluable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; perty and wealth have both failed.

Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.

Some people are so sensitive they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks them.

Some folks can look so busy doing nothin' that they seem indispensable.

If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distaste; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt and cannot last; and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance; but if it light well, it makes virtue shine and vice blush.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

Friends are thieves of time.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

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