Benjamin Franklin Quotes - Page 2

Mine is better than ours.
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Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt.
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The proud hate pride - in others.
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If principle is good for anything it is worth living up to.
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Work as if you were to live one hundred years pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
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Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.
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If you would be loved love and be lovable.
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Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
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He that can have patience can have what he will.
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Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
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He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner.
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Follow your bliss. -Joseph Campbell Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.
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Happiness is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
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Does't thou love life? Then do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
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If time be of all things most precious wasting time must be the greatest prodigality since lost time is never found again.
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You may delay but time will not.
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Lost time is never found again.
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Let they child's first lesson be obedience and the second will be what thou wilt.
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If you would know the value of money go and try to borrow some.
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We must indeed all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.
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God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
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He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.
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Nothing is more fatal to health than an overcare of it.
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God heals and the doctor takes the fees.
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Where there's marriage without love there will be love without marriage.
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You can bear your own faults and why not a fault in your wife?
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Diligence is the mother of good luck and God gives all things to industry.
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If you would be loved love and be lovable.
Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
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Were the offer made true I would engage to run again from beginning to end the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author to correct in a second edition certain errors of the first.
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Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe seldom executed.
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He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
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There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.
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After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.
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In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.
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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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A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
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Take time for all things.
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Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.
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The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself.
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We must all hang together else we shalFall hang separately.
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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Well done is better than well said.
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Keep flax from fire youth from gaming.
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Be slow in choosing a friend slower in changing.
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There are three faithful friends: an old wife an old dog and ready money.
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A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly use soberly distribute cheerfully and leave con-tently.
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If you desire many things many things will seem but a few.
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Ambition has its disappointments to sour us but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
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If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
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The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.
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The way to see by Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.
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A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.
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None preaches better than the ant and she says nothing.
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Fatigue is the best pillow.
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Energy and persistence conquer all things.
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If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it from him.
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Beware of little expenses a small leak will sink a great ship.
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Early to bed and early to rise Makes a man healthy wealthy and wise.
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