~ Benjamin Franklin Quotes ~

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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?