Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
Benjamin Franklin
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Let thy Child's first Lesson be Obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.
AYRTON SENNA "What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my he...
JOHN NEWTON Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law
ALEISTER CROWLEY Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
ALEISTER CROWLEY "Do what thou wilt" shall be the whole of the law.
ALEISTER CROWLEY Benjamin Franklin said the first thing you have to sell is yourself.
JOE LAUINGER Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou ...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou ...
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt keep the United States in Thy holy protectio...
GEORGE WASHINGTON People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
DAVID H COMINS People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
DAVID H. COMINS People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them
Benjamin Franklin said it first.
DAVID H COMINS People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
DAVID H. COMINS Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
ST. AUGUSTINE Dionysus. Wilt thou be led By me, and try the venture?
EURIPIDES Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, ...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say...
BIBLE Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous in...
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
WALTER ISAACSON Stoop where thou wilt, thy careless hand
Some random bud will meet;
Thou canst not tread, but ...
THOMAS HOOD When Thomas Paine showed Benjamin Franklin the manuscript of The Age of Reason, Franklin advised him...
DAVE BARRY Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done." Benjamin Franklin
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?
THOMAS À KEMPIS Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
BIBLE Be the best of you. Don’t do what society, your surroundings, or circumstances expect you to do. D...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him...
BIBLE The first vertue, sone, if thou wilt lerne,
Is to restreyne and kepen wel thy tonge.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold th...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou...
BIBLE Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor;
And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.
WILLIAM COWPER I will not read the last page of novels first," I said, and then punched myself in the face.
"...
BRANDON SANDERSON For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.
BIBLE Then said the king unto her, What wilt thou, queen Esther? and what is thy request? it shall be even...
BIBLE Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finis...
MARCUS AURELIUS Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have fini...
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have fini...
AUSONIUS Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
BIBLE It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
ADAM DEREK SCOTT When I'm governor... I'll be the first governor with a listed telephone number.
KINKY FRIEDMAN Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven.
FREDDY FENDER Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
JANIS JOPLIN It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.
AESCHYLUS First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
THOMAS FULLER Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT Thou wilt never be spiritually minded and godly unless thou art silent concerning other men's matter...
THOMAS À KEMPIS Direct not him whose way himself will choose: 'Tis breath thou lackest and that; breath wilt thou lo...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Far more important than being the first, be willing to settle for the best.
M. LINCOLN SCHUSTER As a mortal, thou must nourish each of two forebodings--that
tomorrow's sunlight will be the last t...
AUSONE DE CHANCEL I will be the first woman president of Mexico in history.
JOSEFINA VAZQUEZ MOTA Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Seneca -Benjamin Franklin.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SACRIFICE OR SELFISHNESS -THE CRUCIAL CHOICE
HENNA SOHAIL Work and thou wilt bless the dayEre the toil be done;They that work not cannot pray,Cannot feel the ...
JOHN SULLIVAN DWIGHT How to change the world:
• spread positivity
• bring people up instead of dragging the...
GERMANY KENT Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art ra...
JUNIUS Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art ra...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH There never was a good war, or a bad peace. -Benjamin Franklin.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Love as thou wilt
JACQUELINE CAREY Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.
VEERAPPA MOILY Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
NORMAN DOUGLAS Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
NORMAN DOUGLAS I'll be the first one to tell you that I'm not the most casual person.
JULIE MACKLOWE I loved dinosaurs, I loved space, and I thought maybe I'd be the first paleo-astronaut.
BILL MARIS O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never ...
CHARLES SPURGEON Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of lig...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? / Wilt thou break a leaf driven to a...
BIBLE Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, / If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieve...
BIBLE And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: neverthele...
BIBLE For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still, / Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon ...
BIBLE Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
MARCUS AURELIUS Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no ...
AGESILAUS THE SECOND How wild it was, to let it be.
T. S. ELIOT The more a person analyzes his inner self, the more insignificant he seems to himself. This is the f...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
BIBLE What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-toge...
THOMAS CARLYLE Does the Eagle know what is in the pit / Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? / Can Wisdom be put in a silv...
WILLIAM BLAKE Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who mad...
EARL WILSON I want to be the first. If they'd let me go to the moon, I'd crawl all the way to Cape Kenne...
EVEL KNIEVEL And wilt thou still be hammering treachery
To tumble down thy husband and thyself
From top of ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Swear now therefore unto me by the LORD, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou ...
BIBLE I'll be the first one to admit my first couple of years I was pretty hard on the refs.
SIDNEY CROSBY Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us
to be here: if thou wilt, let us...
BIBLE Every new day provides for you the opportunity to be your very best
SOTONYE ANGA The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY …a man should say to his soul every morning, "God has given thee twenty-four treasures; take heed ...
أبو حامد محمد الغزالي That is very cool that Benjamin Franklin walked the streets here. I read about Franklin in a library...
ASHLEY JOHNSON The new space will be beautiful and it is the first space we'll be able to plan (ourselves). Our wis...
LANA STANLEY The myth that young people should leave the nest at 18, never to return, started with iconic America...
ANNALEE NEWITZ So here hath been dawning
Another blue day;
Think, wilt thou let it
Slip useless away?
...
THOMAS CARLYLE Don't hang out with people who are:
Ungrateful
Unhelpful
Unruly
Unkindly
Un...
GERMANY KENT
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you would keep your secret from an enemy,
tell it not to a friend.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN