Quote#Wisdom
Powel: Well, Doctor, what have we got?
Quote byElizabeth Willing Powel · 1743–1830
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: As quoted in.
English (original)
Powel: Well, Doctor, what have we got? Benjamin Franklin: A republic, Madam, if you can keep it. Powel: And why not keep it? Franklin: Because the people, on tasting the dish, are always disposed to eat more of it than does them good.
— Elizabeth Willing Powel
You may also like
I presume your Grand Children are with you, and doubt not that they will afford you every consolation that existing Circumstances will admit. Present me affectionately and sympathetically to them they also have lost a protecting …
I have certainly experienced severe trials, and some hard dispensations of Providence … To travel with some dignity, innocence, and usefulness, down the Road which leads from the Morning of Youth to the Night of the Grave, is perhaps as …
The scene was changed. It was a bark that slowly held its way, And o'er its lee the coast of France in the light of evening lay; And on its deck a lady sat, who gazed with tearful eyes Upon the fast receding hills that dim and distant rise.
What great Effects from slender Causes flow!
So All is diff’rent, and yet All is One.
But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.