Benjamin Franklin Quotes

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Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy.

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E'er you remark another's sin, bid your own conscience look within.

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A wolf eats sheep but now and then, ten Thousands are devour'd by Men.

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Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.

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Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly.

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Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in the common occurrences of life, as well as in a battle. How many impertinences do we daily suffer with great uneasiness, because we have not courage enough to discover our dislike.

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That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.

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It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

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Conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it.

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Take Courage, Mortal; Death can't banish thee out of the Universe.

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The good will of the governed will be starved if not fed by the good deeds of the governors.

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An enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, therefore, every free state hath a right by its laws to discourage the possession of such property.

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There has not been any science so much esteemed and honored as this of mathematics, nor with so much industry and vigilance become the care of great men, and labored in by the potentates of the world, viz... emperors, kings, princes, etc.

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Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband.

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If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect. But after all much depends upon the people who are governed.

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Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire.

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

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

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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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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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