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One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. He invented the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, a carriage odometer, and the glass 'armonica'. He formed both the first public lending library in America and the first fire department in Pennsylvania.Here are some famous quotes by Benjamin Franklin.
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Time is money.
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When in doubt, don't.
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Take time for all things.
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Mine is better than ours.
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The best is the cheapest.
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Fatigue is the best pillow.
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Success has ruined many a man.
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Lost time is never found again.
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Little strokes fell great oaks.
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Those things that hurt instruct.
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You may delay but time will not.
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Reckless youth makes rueful age.
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A penny saved is a penny earned.
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The proud hate pride - in others.
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One today is worth two tomorrows.
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Never confuse motion with action.
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Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
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Handle your tools without mittens.
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Half a truth is often a great lie.
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Well done is better than well said.
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He that cannot obey cannot command.
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The doors of wisdom are never shut.
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Little boats should keep near shore.
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Beauty and folly are old companions.
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The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
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God helps them that helps themselves.
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Diligence is the mother of good luck.
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Perform without fail what you resolve.
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Keep flax from fire youth from gaming.
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Games lubricate the body and the mind.
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In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.
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God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
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The way to be safe is never to be secure.
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Some are weather-wise some are otherwise.
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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
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If you want a thing done go - if not send.
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All would live long but none would be old.
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Energy and persistence conquer all things.
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If you would be loved love and be lovable.
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Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
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There never was a good war or a bad peace.
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A little neglect may breed great mischief.
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There was never a good war or a bad peace.
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Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.
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A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
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Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt.
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Creditors have better memories than debtors.
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Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
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He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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Absence sharpens love presence strengthens it.
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Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
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When the well's dry we know the worth of water.
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He that can have patience can have what he will.
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Be slow in choosing a friend slower in changing.
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Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
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By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail.
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Eat to please thyself but dress to please others.
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If Jack's in love he's no judge of Jill's beauty.
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An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
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Would you persuade speak of interest not of reason.
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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
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After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.
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What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
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Wealth is not his that has it but his who enjoys it.
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Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
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Employ thy time well if thou meanest to get leisure.
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Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge.
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The way to see by Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.
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He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner.
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Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.
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In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
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Wealth is not his that has it but his that enjoys it.
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Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.
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A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
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Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
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An undutiful Daughter will prove an unmanageable Wife.
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But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.
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I saw few die of hunger; of eating a hundred thousand.
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It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
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None preaches better than the ant and she says nothing.
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He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
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Nothing is more fatal to health than an overcare of it.
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We must all hang together else we shall hang separately.
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If you desire many things many things will seem but a few.
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The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
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If principle is good for anything it is worth living up to.
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Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
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The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
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If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles.
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Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage half shut afterwards.
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Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe seldom executed.
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You can bear your own faults and why not a fault in your wife?
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He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
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If you would be wealthy think of saving as well as of getting.
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Experience is a dear teacher but fools will learn at no other.
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If you would know the value of money go and try to borrow some.
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Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
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We must all hang together or assuredly we shall hang separately.
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A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
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Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
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Would you live with ease? Do what you ought not what you please.
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Experience keeps a dear school but fools will learn in no other.
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If men are so wicked with religion what would they be without it?
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I guess I don't so much mind being old as I mind being fat and old.
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Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
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Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
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Early to bed and early to rise Makes a man healthy wealthy and wise.
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A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.
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Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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At 20 years of age the will reigns at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.
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Teach your child to hold his tongue He'll learn fast enough to speak.
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If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it from him.
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To succeed jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
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Where there's marriage without love there will be love without marriage.
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If you would persuade you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
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There are three faithful friends: an old wife an old dog and ready money.
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Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.
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A child thinks twenty shillings and twenty years can scarce ever be spent.
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There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.
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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 have a faithful servant and one that you like serve yourself.
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He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.
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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.
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It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
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Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade.
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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
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There are three things extremely hard: steel a diamond and to know one's self.
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In the affairs of this world men are saved not by faith but by the want of it.
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The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.
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We must indeed all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.
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Let they child's first lesson be obedience and the second will be what thou wilt.
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As we must account for every idle word so must we account for every idle silence.
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I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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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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Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
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He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
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Ambition has its disappointments to sour us but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of.
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Marriage is the most natural state of man and the state in which you will find solid happiness.
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The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
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Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so. It is not so. It is so. It is not so.
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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
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How many observe Christ's birthday! How few his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.
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Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
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Without love what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.
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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable those that are movable and those that move.
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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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Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
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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 would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
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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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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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Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
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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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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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Human felicity 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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There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
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'Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.
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So convienent a thing it is to be a reasonable creature since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.
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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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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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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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A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
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I cannot conceive otherwise than that He the Infinite Father expects or requires no worship or praise from us but that He is even infinitely above it.
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Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance silence order resolution frugality industry sincerity justice moderation cleanliness tranquility chastity and humility.
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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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To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.
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I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.
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For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost; being overtaken and slain by the enemy all for want of care about a horseshoe nail.
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A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; for want of a horse the battle was lost; for want of the battle the war was lost.
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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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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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Educate your children to self-control to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
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I have lived Sir a long time and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God Governs the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?
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When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and cancelling them out one against the other I take the course indicated by what remains.
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Money can help you to get medicines but not health. Money can help you to get soft pillows but not sound sleep. Money can help you to get material comforts but not eternal bliss. Money can help you to get ornaments but not beauty. Money will help you to get an electric earphone but not natural hearing. Attain the supreme wealth wisdom and you will have everything.
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Money never made a man happy yet nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum it makes one. If it satisfies one want it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man rely upon it; Better is little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble therewith.'