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Benjamin Franklin Quotes
A penny
saved is a penny earned.
Benjamin
Franklin
Any
society that would give up a little liberty to gain
a little security will deserve neither and lose
both.
Benjamin
Franklin
Anyone
who trades liberty for security deserves neither
liberty nor security.
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Franklin
A learned
blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant
one.
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Franklin
A small
leak can sink a great ship.
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Franklin
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
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Franklin
An
investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
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Franklin
A
countryman between two lawyers is like a fish
between two cats.
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Franklin
A good
conscience is a continual Christmas.
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Franklin
A great
empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished
at the edges.
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Franklin
A house
is not a home unless it contains food and fire for
the mind as well as the body.
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Franklin
A life of
leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There
will be sleeping enough in the grave.
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Franklin
A man
wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
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Franklin
A place
for everything, everything in its place.
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Franklin
Absence
sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
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Franklin
All
mankind is divided into three classes: those that
are immovable, those that are movable, and those
that move.
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Franklin
All wars
are follies, very expensive and very mischievous
ones.
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Franklin
All who
think cannot but see there is a sanction like that
of religion which binds us in partnership in the
serious work of the world.
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Franklin
And
whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a
thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my
brief.
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Franklin
Anger is
never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
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Franklin
Any fool
can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools
do.
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Franklin
Applause
waits on success.
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Franklin
As we
must account for every idle word, so must we account
for every idle silence.
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Franklin
At twenty
years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit;
and at forty, the judgment.
Benjamin
Franklin
Be at war
with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and
let every new year find you a better man.
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Franklin
Be slow
in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
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Franklin
Beauty
and folly are old companions.
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Franklin
Beer is
living proof that God loves us and wants us to be
happy.
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Franklin
Being
ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling
to learn.
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Franklin
Beware of
little expenses. A small leak will sink a great
ship.
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Franklin
Beware
the hobby that eats.
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Franklin
Buy what
thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell
thy necessities.
Benjamin
Franklin
By
failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Benjamin
Franklin
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but
death and taxes.
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Franklin
Content
makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
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Franklin
Creditors
have better memories than debtors.
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Franklin
Diligence
is the mother of good luck.
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Franklin
Distrust
and caution are the parents of security.
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Franklin
Do good
to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win
them.
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Franklin
Do not
fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to
reach out.
Benjamin
Franklin
Do not
squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin
Franklin
Dost thou
love life? Then do not squander time, for that is
the stuff life is made of.
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Franklin
Each year
one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the
worst of us good.
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Franklin
Eat to
please thyself, but dress to please others.
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Franklin
Either
write something worth reading or do something worth
writing.
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Franklin
Employ
thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
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Franklin
Energy
and persistence conquer all things.
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Franklin
Even
peace may be purchased at too high a price.
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Franklin
Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn
at no other.
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Franklin
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn
in no other.
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Franklin
Fatigue
is the best pillow.
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Franklin
For
having lived long, I have experienced many instances
of being obliged, by better information or fuller
consideration, to change opinions, even on important
subjects, which I once thought right but found to be
otherwise.
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Franklin
Gain may
be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live,
expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to
build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
Benjamin
Franklin
Games
lubricate the body and the mind.
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Franklin
Genius
without education is like silver in the mine.
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Franklin
God helps
those who help themselves.
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Franklin
God works
wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest
man.
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Franklin
Guests,
like fish, begin to smell after three days.
Benjamin
Franklin
Half a
truth is often a great lie.
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Franklin
Having
been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Benjamin
Franklin
He does
not possess wealth; it possesses him.
Benjamin
Franklin
He that
can have patience can have what he will.
Benjamin
Franklin
He that
composes himself is wiser than he that composes a
book.
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Franklin
He that
displays too often his wife and his wallet is in
danger of having both of them borrowed.
Benjamin
Franklin
He that
has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you
another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Benjamin
Franklin
He that
is good for making excuses is seldom good for
anything else.
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Franklin
He that
is of the opinion money will do everything may well
be suspected of doing everything for money.
Benjamin
Franklin
He that
lives upon hope will die fasting.
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Franklin
He that
raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives
to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow;
but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
Benjamin
Franklin
He that
rises late must trot all day.
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Franklin
He that
speaks much, is much mistaken.
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Franklin
He that
waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
Benjamin
Franklin
He that
won't be counseled can't be helped.
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Franklin
He that
would live in peace and at ease must not speak all
he knows or all he sees.
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Franklin
He that's
secure is not safe.
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Franklin
He who
falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
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Franklin
Hear
reason, or she'll make you feel her.
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Franklin
Hide not
your talents. They for use were made. What's a
sundial in the shade?
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Franklin
Honesty
is the best policy.
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Franklin
How few
there are who have courage enough to own their
faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
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Franklin
Human
felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of
good fortune that seldom happen as by little
advantages that occur every day.
Benjamin
Franklin
Hunger is
the best pickle.
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Franklin
I
conceive that the great part of the miseries of
mankind are brought upon them by false estimates
they have made of the value of things.
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Franklin
I didn't
fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
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Franklin
I guess I
don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat
and old.
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Franklin
I look
upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as
sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
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Franklin
I saw few
die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
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Franklin
I should
have no objection to go over the same life from its
beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage
authors have, of correcting in a second edition the
faults of the first.
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Franklin
I wake up
every morning at nine and grab for the morning
paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name
is not on it, I get up.
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Franklin
If a man
could have half of his wishes, he would double his
troubles.
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Franklin
If a man
empties his purse into his head, no one can take it
from him.
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Franklin
If all
printers were determined not to print anything till
they were sure it would offend nobody, there would
be very little printed.
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Franklin
If
passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
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Franklin
If time
be of all things the most precious, wasting time
must be the greatest prodigality.
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Franklin
If you
desire many things, many things will seem few.
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Franklin
If you
know how to spend less than you get, you have the
philosopher's stone.
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Franklin
If you
would be loved, love, and be loveable.
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Franklin
If you
would have a faithful servant, and one that you
like, serve yourself.
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Franklin
If you
would know the value of money, go and try to borrow
some.
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Franklin
If you
would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead,
either write something worth reading or do things
worth writing.
Benjamin
Franklin
In
general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery,
eats twice as much as nature requires.
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Franklin
In the
affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith,
but by the want of it.
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Franklin
In this
world nothing can be said to be certain, except
death and taxes.
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Franklin
Industry
need not wish.
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Franklin
It is a
grand mistake to think of being great without
goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there
was never a truly great man that was not at the same
time truly virtuous.
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Franklin
It is
easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
Benjamin
Franklin
It is
much easier to suppress a first desire than to
satisfy those that follow.
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Franklin
It is
only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the
impotence of wealth.
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Franklin
It is the
eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I
would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or
fine furniture.
Benjamin
Franklin
It is the
working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man
who is the miserable man.
Benjamin
Franklin
It takes
many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only
one bad one to lose it.
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Franklin
Keep your
eyes wide open before marriage, half shut
afterwards.
Benjamin
Franklin
Laws too
gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom
executed.
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Franklin
Leisure
is the time for doing something useful. This leisure
the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
Benjamin
Franklin
Life's
Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too
late.
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Franklin
Lost time
is never found again.
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Franklin
Many a
man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really
selling himself to it.
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Franklin
Many
foxes grow gray but few grow good.
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Franklin
Many
people die at twenty five and aren't buried until
they are seventy five.
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Franklin
Marriage
is the most natural state of man, and... the state
in which you will find solid happiness.
Benjamin
Franklin
Mine is
better than ours.
Benjamin
Franklin
Money has
never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing
in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it
one has the more one wants.
Benjamin
Franklin
Most
people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones
and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
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Franklin
Necessity
never made a good bargain.
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Franklin
Never
confuse motion with action.
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Franklin
Never
leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Benjamin
Franklin
Never
take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to
put her in.
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Franklin
Nine men
in ten are would be suicides.
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Franklin
No nation
was ever ruined by trade.
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Franklin
Observe
all men, thyself most.
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Franklin
One today
is worth two tomorrows.
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Franklin
Our
necessities never equal our wants.
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Franklin
Rather go
to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
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Franklin
Rebellion
against tyrants is obedience to God.
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Franklin
Remember
not only to say the right thing in the right place,
but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the
wrong thing at the tempting moment.
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Franklin
Remember
that credit is money.
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Franklin
Savages
we call them because their manners differ from ours.
Benjamin
Franklin
She
laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has
fine teeth.
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Franklin
Since
thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an
hour.
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Franklin
Some
people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.
Benjamin
Franklin
Speak ill
of no man, but speak all the good you know of
everybody.
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Franklin
Take time
for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Benjamin
Franklin
Tell me
and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me
and I learn.
Benjamin
Franklin
The
absent are never without fault, nor the present
without excuse.
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Franklin
The art
of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
Benjamin
Franklin
The
Constitution only gives people the right to pursue
happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
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Franklin
The
discontented man finds no easy chair.
Benjamin
Franklin
The doors
of wisdom are never shut.
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Franklin
The
doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of
our own ignorance.
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Franklin
The eye
of the master will do more work than both his hands.
Benjamin
Franklin
The first
mistake in public business is the going into it.
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Franklin
The man
who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor
will he ever receive either.
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Franklin
The
strictest law sometimes becomes the severest
injustice.
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Franklin
The U. S.
Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the
pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it
yourself.
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Franklin
The use
of money is all the advantage there is in having it.
Benjamin
Franklin
The way
to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
Benjamin
Franklin
The worst
wheel of the cart makes the most noise.
Benjamin
Franklin
There are
three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog,
and ready money.
Benjamin
Franklin
There are
three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and
to know one's self.
Benjamin
Franklin
There are
two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our
wants or augment our means - either may do - the
result is the same and it is for each man to decide
for himself and to do that which happens to be
easier.
Benjamin
Franklin
There is
no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good
people more easily and frequently fall than that of
defrauding the government.
Benjamin
Franklin
There
never was a truly great man that was not at the same
time truly virtuous.
Benjamin
Franklin
There was
never a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin
Franklin
They that
can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin
Franklin
They who
would give up an essential liberty for temporary
security, deserve neither liberty or security.
Benjamin
Franklin
Those
disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are
generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get
victory, sometimes, but they never get good will,
which would be of more use to them.
Benjamin
Franklin
Those
that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor
safety.
Benjamin
Franklin
Those
that won't be counseled can't be helped.
Benjamin
Franklin
Those who
govern, having much business on their hands, do not
generally like to take the trouble of considering
and carrying into execution new projects. The best
public measures are therefore seldom adopted from
previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Benjamin
Franklin
Those who
would give up essential liberty to purchase a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin
Franklin
Three can
keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
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Franklin
Time is
money.
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Franklin
To Follow
by faith alone is to follow blindly.
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Franklin
To
lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
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Franklin
To
succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do
at conclusions.
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Franklin
Tomorrow,
every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow
never comes.
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Franklin
Tricks
and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't
have brains enough to be honest.
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Franklin
Trouble
springs from idleness, and grievous toil from
needless ease.
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Franklin
Wars are
not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
Benjamin
Franklin
We are
all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain
stupid.
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Franklin
We are
more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect
to our political interests, than perhaps any other
under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so
easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for
conversations of improvement and for acquiring
information.
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Franklin
We must,
indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we
shall all hang separately.
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Franklin
Wealth is
not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
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Franklin
Well done
is better than well said.
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Franklin
Whatever
is begun in anger ends in shame.
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Franklin
When
befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget
it.
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Franklin
When in
doubt, don't.
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Franklin
When men
and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last
part moves, her last, the tongue.
Benjamin
Franklin
When will
mankind be convinced and agree to settle their
difficulties by arbitration?
Benjamin
Franklin
When
you're finished changing, you're finished.
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Franklin
Where
liberty is, there is my country.
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Franklin
Where
sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
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Franklin
Where
there's marriage without love, there will be love
without marriage.
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Franklin
Who had
deceived thee so often as thyself?
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Franklin
Who is
rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
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Franklin
Who is
rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
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Franklin
Who is
wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful?
He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that
is content. Who is that? Nobody.
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Franklin
Wine is
constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us
happy.
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Franklin
Wise men
don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
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Franklin
Without
continual growth and progress, such words as
improvement, achievement, and success have no
meaning.
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Franklin
Words may
show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
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Franklin
Work as
if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you
were to die tomorrow.
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Franklin
Write
injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
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Franklin
Write
your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.
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Franklin
You can
bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your
wife?
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Franklin
You may
delay, but time will not.
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Franklin
Your net
worth to the world is usually determined by what
remains after your bad habits are subtracted from
your good ones.
Benjamin
Franklin
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