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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. Compiled by Wal-
lace Rice. . . Mr* $1.00
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A. C. McClurg & Co.

Chicago
THE
FRANKLIN YEAR BOOK
MAXIMS AND MORALS FROM THE
GREAT PHILOSOPHER
COMPILED BY
WALLACE RICE
COMPILER OF "THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK''
CHICAGO
A. C. McCLURG & CO.
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Copyright, 1907,
A. C. McClurg & Co.
Published October 12, 1907
BEQUEST OF SAMUEL SIGILMAN

FEBRUARY 14, 1941
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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.
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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.
JANUARY
ELE VENT H
When the well is dry, they know the

worth of water.
TWELF TH
you would know the value

If 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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FIF 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 VE NT E E N T H
It is prodigious the quantity of good
thatmay 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 \[î'
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.
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
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Be not disturbed at trifles.

FEBRUARY
The most acceptable service of God is the do-
ing good to man.

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FEBRUARY
FIRS T
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
SECOND
Because they look pretty, how many
want to have them !
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FOURTH
Pride meets with provocations and
disturbances upon almost every occa-
sion.
FIF TH
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Sal laughs at everything you say;
why ? because she has fine teeth.
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.
TENT H
Keep your eyes open before marriage,

half-shut afterwards.
FEBRUARY
ELE VENT H
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.
FIF TEENTH
In this country we are not so afraid of
being laughed at.
FEBRUARY
SIXTEENTH
Hast thou virtue? acquire also the
graces and beauties of virtue.
5E 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

have not wit enough to be
of fools that
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 VENT H
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.

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. WQ ^ y

FOUR T H
The eye of a master will do more
work than both his hands.
FIF rH
It is foolish to lay out money in a pur-

chase of repentance.
MARCH
SIXTH
Hard names and many were bestowed
on me.
SE 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.
MARCH
EL E VE NTH
There are no gains without pains then ;
help, hands, for have no lands.

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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.
FIF 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.
SE 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
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usefully, than, He died rich.
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.
MARCH
TWENTY- FIRS T
Ideas will string themselves, like ropes
of onions.
TWENTY- SECOND
Not being used they know
to liberty,
not how to make a modest use of it.
TWEN TY-TH I RD
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 possesses anything he has
that
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 allday 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.

APRIL
SIXTH
Many estates are spent in the getting,
Since women for tea forsook spinning and
knitting,
And men for punch forsook hewing and
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splitting.
SB V BNTH
I The public money, raised from all,
em belongs to all.
EI G H TH
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Employ thy time well if thou meanest

to gain leisure.
NINTH
Most people dislike vanity in others,
whatever share they have of it them-
selves.
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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.
FIF TEENTH
He that lives upon hopes will die fast-
ing.
APRIL
SIX TEEN T H
Those who have much business must

have much pardon.
SE 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 the

of 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 NT I 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.
TWENTY- EI G H TH
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Opinions should be judged

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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
Ihad a tolerable character to begin \û

with; I valued it properly, and deter-
mined to preserve it.
FOURTH
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 VE 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
Allwars 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 VENT H
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 UR TEENTH
I am apt to speak in the singular
number.
FIF 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.
SE YEN TEEN T H
The used key is always bright, as Poor
Richard says.
EIGH 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
thought so meanly of him for it, that,
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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 UR TH
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.
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.
THIR 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.
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
insome 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.
SE VBNTH
Take care of yourself. Your life is a
valuable one.
EIGHTH
Hope being free from care and labor,
of
with fear of penury, are the mainsprings

of most people's industry.
NINTH
Visit seldom, and tarry but a little
while in a place.
JUNE
TENTH
Virtue is the best guard against the
many evils incident to us.
ELE VE 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
FIF TFEN TH
There seems to be some peculiar

charm in the conceit of finding money.
SIXTEENTH
He no clown that drives the plough,
is
but he that does clownish things.
SE 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
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love 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.
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 littletemporary 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, likea 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.
JULY
ELE VE 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.
FIF TEENTH
We should not suffer pride to prevent
our progress in science.
JULY
SIX TBENTH
His great excellence lay in a sound
inliiyîiiii
understanding and solid judgment in pru-

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SE YEN TEEN T H
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Industry, frugality, and prudent econ-
omy in a wife are a fortune.
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What is wit, or wealth, or form, or
learning, when compared to virtue ?
NINE TEE NTH

There are none without their faults ;
no, not one.
TWEN TIE TH
The ideas of aggrandizement by con-
quest are out of fashion.
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
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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
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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, if you 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
has been a pleasure to me
It to see
good workmen use their tools.
SB V E NT H
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 VENT H
Good wives and good plantations are
made by good husbands. V>
TWELF TH %
Luxury should never be suffered to

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become common.
TH I R TEE NTH a c
A man is sometimes more generous

when he has Lo-l
little money than when he
has plenty, perhaps through fear of being \[û
thought to have but little.
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 body is not

of 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 hisfamily in plenty, is poor enough
to work for a master.
TWENT Y - F O UR TH
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
Be little burdensome and essentially

useful to friends.
TWENTY-NINTH
He that hath a trade hath an estate.
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TH I R TIE T H
A small leak will sink a great ship.
TH 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 the proof of a
fire ;
woman, gold; the proof of man, a woman.
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SEPTEMBER
FIRS T
Virtue is the best preservative of

health.
SECOND
What we call time enough always
proves little enough.
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At the working-man's house hunger lK-1

looks in but dares not enter.
FOUR T H
He that hath a calling hath an office

of profit and honor. 2
FIF TH
Let no man flatter the age with pre-

tending that we have arrived at a perfec-
tion of discoveries.
THE ERA N KLIN YEAR BOOK
SEPTEMBER
SIX TH
While my care was employed in guard-

ing against one fault, was often sur-
I
prised by another.
S E VE 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 sometimes

rights
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.
5E 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 a c
ZET
Frauds are vastly more pernicious II

than simple thefts.
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TWENTY-THIRD
Reconciliation is a sweet expression.
TWENTY- FO U R TH
None abuse confidence but those who

possess it.
TWEN TY-F I FT H
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
willbe 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 may cause a great mischief :
neglect
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
Ifyou 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 certainly reward virtue
will and
punish vice, either here or hereafter.
NINTH
The judgment a whole people, es-
of
pecially of a free people, is looked upon

as infallible.
TENTH
Men I find to be a sort of beings very
badly constructed.
OCTOBER
ELE VE NT H f
Great affairs sometimes take their rise

from small circumstances.
TWELF TH
Americans do not enquire concerning
What is he ? but, What can
a stranger,
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.
FIF 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 never ask, never refuse, nor
shall
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 produced not so
felicity is
much by great pieces of good fortune

that seldom happen as by little advan-
tages that occur every day.
TWEN TY-T H I RD
Not knowing but that he might be in

the right, let him enjoy his opinions,
I
which take to be the best way.

I
TWENTY- F O UR TH
J7Wf
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
Here comes the orator with his flood
of words and his drop of reason.
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
company, chat, a laugh, a
love glass,
and even a song as well as ever.
THIRTIETH
made that man my enemy by doing
I
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
Alexander and 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. CJj!
SECOND li
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.
FIF TH
Now I have a sheep and a cow every-

body bids me good-morrow.
NOVEMBER
SIX T H
Mankind are all of a family.
SE 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
our desires are to the things of this
If
world, they are never to be satisfied.
TWE L F T H
Let each part of your business have
its time.
T HIR TEENTH
Even if I could conceive that I had
completely overcome pride, I should
probably be proud of my humility.
JjLjlO V^?^
FO URTEENTH
There could not be a more potent
counterpoise to the designs of ambitious
men than a multitude that feared and
hated ambition.
FIF TEENTH
Who dainties love shall beggars prove.
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.
SE 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
fifty years past no one has

For these
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-T H I RD
The second vice is lying, the first is
running in debt. \[^y
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.
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
have not more for their work, they can
jjE
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.
TH 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
Ifwe 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.
SE YEN TH
The pleasures in this world are rather

from God's goodness than our own merit.
EIGH 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.
DECEMBER
EL E VE 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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TH I R TEEN TH
i
The more affectionate relations are to

each other, the more they are respected
by the rest of the world.
F O UR TEEN TH
Work while it is called to-day.
F I F T E ENTH
It is hard for an empty bag to stand
upright.
DECEMBER
SIX TEEN TH
Suppositions, however ingenious, are

often mere mistakes.
SE VENTE E N TH
A man is not completely born until he
is dead.
EIGH 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 no persuasion move

thee,
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 NT H I
It is pleasant to see the world growing

better and happier.
THIR TIE TH
There will be sleeping enough in the
grave.
TH I R TY- F I RS T
In looking back, how short the time
seems!
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The Lincoln Year Book. Axioms and

A. C. McClurg & Co.

Published October 12, 1907

BEQUEST OF SAMUEL SIGILMAN

BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARV ^tZ

(Tfje ILafcfSttif l$xnt

The noblest question in the world is, What good can I do

Necessity never made a good bargain.

If you would have a faithful servant,

Three may keep a secret, if two of

They that will not be counselled can

Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep

When the well is dry, they know the

you would know the value

An old young man will be a young old

It is easier to build two chimneys than

make a business of it.

Covetousness is ever attended with

every one has courage enough and to

There are lazy minds as well as lazy

Creditors have better memories than

Be not disturbed at trifles.

ing good to man.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Love well, whip well.

My father convinced me that nothing

A man may, if he knows not how to

Keep your eyes open before marriage,

Experience keeps a dear school, but

Happy that nation, fortunate that age,

Search others for their virtues, thyself

for thy vices.

Learn to be quiet and respect each

By diligence and patience the mouse

easy and disquieted.

As we must account for every idle

Let thy discontents be thy secrets.

Want of care does us more damage

year, because of years past.

Tricks and treachery are the practice

Silks and satins, scarlet and velvets,

Let thy handmaid be faithful, strong,

Forbear resenting injuries as much as

Those have a short Lent who owe

can only result from order.

Opportunity is the great bawd.

with those one is to live with continually. WQ ^ y

It is foolish to lay out money in a pur-

help, hands, for have no lands.

as plain as the way to market.

vanity who believes, and a good deal of

dulity when knavery would mislead it,

bought, pays interest for the use of it.

expense of a rank of people, the more

God in his mercy may do much to save

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in chang-

He has paid dear, very dear, for his