Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
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“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“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
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“The doors of wisdom are never shut.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“Half a truth is often a great lie.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“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.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“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.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“There was never a good war, or a bad peace.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“He that can have patience can have what he will.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“Well done is better than well said.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“Nine men in ten are would be suicides.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“He that lives upon hope will die fasting.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“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
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“There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe, seldom executed.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“Necessity never made a good bargain.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“God works wonders now and then Behold a lawyer, an honest man.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“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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“Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“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
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“The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“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.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“The first mistake in public business is the going into it.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“Beauty and folly are old companions.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.” -Benjamin Franklin
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To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly. – Benjamin Franklin
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At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment. – Benjamin Franklin
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