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WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-03-13

A quotation from Franklin

No gains without pains.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1745 ed.)

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WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-03-06

A quotation from Robert Herrick

If little labour, little are our gains;
Man’s fortunes are according to his pains.

Robert Herrick (1591-1674) English poet
Poem (1648), “No Pains, No Gains,” Hesperides, # 752

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/herrick-robert/75433…

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WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-02-27

A quotation from Nicholas Breton

SUSAN: The world is hard, they must take pain that look for any gayn.

Nicholas Breton (c. 1545/53 - c. 1625/26) English Renaissance poet and prose writer [Britton; Brittaine]
Workes of a Young Wyt (1577)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/breton-nicholas/7523…

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2024-11-24

@theautisticcoach I believe, in those instances, any person #armed with the #prerequisite required for sitting in said location, should have a free pass to #clobber those that don't, with whatever they have on their person, capable of providing a good #wallop

Richard R LeeInfoMgmtExec
2024-03-13
WIST Quotations has moved!WISTquote@zirk.us
2024-01-26

A quotation from Herbert, George:

«
For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
wist.info/herbert-george/12071

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