Benjamin Franklin Quotes

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Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." He planned his routine around waking up at 5 a.m. and asking himself "What good shall I do this day?

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No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.

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Neglect mending a small fault and 'twill soon be a great one.

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There is much money given to be laughed at, though the purchasers don't know it; witness A.'s fine horse, and B.'s fine house.

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The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess; which will purchase more or less labor, and therefore is more or less valuable, as is said before, according to its scarcity or plenty.

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Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking.

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Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy

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It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being.

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I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what you feel that is common or that may be useful; for this will be the best method of imprinting such portcullis in your memory.

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There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah - get first all the people's money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants forever.

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An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught.

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If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred before all other considerations, ought not men, in choosing a business either for themselves or children, to refuse such as are unwholesome for the body, and such as make a man too dependent, too much obliged to please others, and too much subjected to their humors in order to be recommended and get a livelihood?

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He that doth what he should not, shall feel what he would not.

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If you ride a horse, sit close and tight, if you ride a man, sit easy and light.

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He is no clown that drives the plow, but he that doth clownish things.

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One mend-fault is worth two find-faults, but one find-fault is better than two make-faults.

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You may sometimes be much in the Wrong, in owning your being in the Right.

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The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom as not to receive any perceptible resistance.

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If we can sleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are avoided. If, while we sleep, we can have any pleasing dreams, it is as the French say, tant gagne, so much added to the pleasure of life.

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Till we are uneasy in Rest, we can have no Desire to move, and without Desire of moving there can be no voluntary Motion.

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In New England they once thought blackbirds useless, and mischievous to the corn. They made efforts to destroy them. The consequence was, the blackbirds were diminished; but a kind of worm, which devoured their grass, and which the blackbirds used to feed on, increased prodigiously; then, finding their loss in grass much greater than their saving in corn, they wished again for their blackbirds.

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Some make Conscience of wearing a Hat in the Church, who make none of robbing the Altar.

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Did not strong connections draw me elsewhere, I believe Scotland would be the country I would choose to end my days in.

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The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch

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An infallible Remedy for the Tooth-ach, viz Wash the Root of an aching Tooth, in Elder Vinegar, and let it dry half an hour in the Sun; after which it will never ach more; Probatum est.

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For Age and Want save while you may; No morning Sun lasts a whole day.

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As sore places meet most rubs, proud folks meet most affronts.

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Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshipped.

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Reader, I wish thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And may kind Heaven thy Year's Industry bless.

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The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent.

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