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Benjamin Franklin Quotes
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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 (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
A penny saved is two pence clear, a pin a day’s a groat a year (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Vessels large may venture more, but little boats should keep near shore (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others? (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
A bargain is something you have to find a use for once you have bought it (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
He that pays for work before it’s done, has but a pennyworth for two pence (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
All the little money that ever came into my hands was ever laid out in books (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet! (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)
There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war... this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)