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Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:09:46 -0700

Franklin's 13 Virtues

Temperance
Eat not to Dullness
Drink not to Elevation.

Silence
Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself.
Avoid trifling Conversation.

Order
Let all your Things have their Places.
Let each Part of your Business have its Time.

Resolution
Resolve to perform what you ought.
Perform without fail what you resolve.

Frugality
Make no Expense but to do good to others or yourself:
i.e. Waste nothing.

Industry
Lose no Time. Be always employ'd in something useful. Cut off all unnecessary Actions.

Sincerity
Use no hurtful Deceit.
Think innocently and justly; and, if you speak, speak accordingly.

Justice
Wrong none, by doing Injuries or omitting the Benefits that are your Duty.

Moderation
Avoid Extremes. Forbear resenting Injuries so much as you think they deserve.

Cleanliness
Tolerate no Uncleanness in Body, Clothes or Habitation.

Tranquillity
Be not disturbed at Trifles, or at Accidents common or unavoidable.

Chastity
Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring; Never to Dullness, Weakness, or the Injury of your own or another's Peace or Reputation.

Humility
Imitate Jesus and Socrates.

The Morning Question
What Good shall I do this Day?

Evening Question
What Good have I done to day?

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Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:56:47 -0700

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

-- William Shakespeare

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