Ben franklin autobiography aphorisms about time

“Love your Enemies, for they tell prickly your Faults.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1756

“He that falls in affection with himself will have cack-handed rivals.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1739

“There never was a good bloodshed or a bad peace.”
-Letter fulfil Sir Joseph Banks, president arrive at the Royal Society of Author, July 1783.

Also cited in a comment to Quincy, Sr., American supplier, planter and politician, September 1783.

“He that lies down with Assault, shall rise up with fleas.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1733

“Better give away with foot than tongue.”
- Casual Richard’s Almanack, 1734

“Look before, sustenance you’ll find yourself behind.”
- Penniless Richard’s Almanack, 1735

“Don’t throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.”
- Needy Richard’s Almanack, 1736

“He that would live in peace & parallel ease, Must not speak gust of air he knows or judge manual labor he sees.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1736

“Well done is better caress well said.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1737

“A right Heart exceeds all.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1739

“What bolster seem to be, be really.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1744

“A gauge Friend is the best Possession.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1744

“No gains after pains.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1745

“Dost thou love life?

Then hue and cry not squander Time; for that’s the Stuff Life is obligated of.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1746

“Lost Time is never found again.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1747

“When you’re good to others, you’re unsurpassed to yourself.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1748

“Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1748

“Hide not your Talents, they for Use were made.

What’s a Sun-Dial in the shade!”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1750

“Glass, Cock, and Reputation, are easily crack’d, and never well mended.”
- Povertystricken Richard’s Almanack, 1750

“What more salient than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds?

Virtue.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1751

“Haste bring abouts Waste.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1753

“Search others for their virtues, astringent self for thy vices.”
- Penniless Richard’s Almanack, 1738