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Benjamin Franklin Quotes and Quotations
 If you want a thing done, go - if not, send. - Benjamin Franklin | Action Quotes  All would live long, but none would be old. - Benjamin Franklin | Aging and Old Age Quotes If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing. - Benjamin Franklin | Books and Reading Quotes A child thinks twenty shillings and twenty years can scarce ever be spent. - Benjamin Franklin | Children and Childhood Quotes The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse. - Benjamin Franklin | Fame and Celebrities Quotes There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. - Benjamin Franklin | Friends and Friendship Quotes 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. - Benjamin Franklin | Homo Sapiens Quotes There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him. - Benjamin Franklin | Imitation Quotes 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. - Benjamin Franklin | Life Quotes You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife? - Benjamin Franklin | Marriage Quotes God heals, and the doctor takes the fees. - Benjamin Franklin | Medicine and Sickness Quotes Nothing is more fatal to health than an overcare of it. - Benjamin Franklin | Medicine and Sickness Quotes We must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately. - Benjamin Franklin | Minorities Quotes Praise to the undeserving is severe satire. - Benjamin Franklin | Praise and Flattery Quotes Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. - Benjamin Franklin | Revolution and Reform Quotes Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason. - Benjamin Franklin | Speakers and Speeches Quotes What maintains one vice would bring up two children. - Benjamin Franklin | Vice Quotes There never was a good war or a bad peace. - Benjamin Franklin | War Quotes 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. - Benjamin Franklin | Wisdom Quotes The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself. - Benjamin Franklin | Happiness Quotes Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom. - Benjamin Franklin | Happiness Quotes Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. - Benjamin Franklin | Forgiveness Quotes A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave con-tently. - Benjamin Franklin | Forgiveness Quotes If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few. - Benjamin Franklin | Forgiveness Quotes A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. - Benjamin Franklin | Helping Other People Quotes Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. - Benjamin Franklin | Friendship Quotes The way to see by Faith is to shut the eye of Reason. - Benjamin Franklin | Faith and Unity Quotes Work as if you were to live one hundred years; pray as if you were to die tomorrow. - Benjamin Franklin | Prayer Quotes If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself. - Benjamin Franklin | Self-Reliance Quotes If you want a thing done, go; if not, send. - Benjamin Franklin | Self-Reliance Quotes The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. - Benjamin Franklin | Self-Reliance Quotes Lost time is never found again. - Benjamin Franklin | One Day Quotes You may delay, but time will not. - Benjamin Franklin | One Day Quotes Does't thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. - Benjamin Franklin | One Day Quotes If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again. - Benjamin Franklin | One Day Quotes Happiness is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day. - Benjamin Franklin | One Day Quotes Follow your bliss. -Joseph Campbell Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve. - Benjamin Franklin | One Day Quotes One today is worth two tomorrows. - Benjamin Franklin | The Present Quotes Today is yesterday's pupil. - Benjamin Franklin | The Present Quotes Fatigue is the best pillow. - Benjamin Franklin | Evenings Quotes He that can have patience can have what he will. - Benjamin Franklin | Difficult Days Quotes Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience. - Benjamin Franklin | Difficult Days Quotes If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin | Positive Quotes Energy and persistence conquer all things. - Benjamin Franklin | Enthusiasm Quotes There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him. - Benjamin Franklin | Role Models Quotes 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. - Benjamin Franklin | Decisions Quotes The secret of success is constancy to purpose. - Benjamin Franklin | Goals Quotes The way to be safe is never to be secure. - Benjamin Franklin | Security Quotes Well done is better than well said. - Benjamin Franklin | Getting Going Quotes Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility. - Benjamin Franklin | Success Quotes Success has ruined many a man. - Benjamin Franklin | Success Quotes Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. - Benjamin Franklin | Luck Quotes He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner. - Benjamin Franklin | Opportunities Quotes Perform without fail what you resolve. - Benjamin Franklin | Commitment and Belief Quotes Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. - Benjamin Franklin | Work Quotes God helps them that helps themselves. - Benjamin Franklin | Action Quotes Little strokes fell great oaks. - Benjamin Franklin | Time Quotes Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. - Benjamin Franklin | Time Quotes 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. - Benjamin Franklin | Time Quotes 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. - Benjamin Franklin | Adversity Quotes Those things that hurt, instruct. - Benjamin Franklin | Adversity Quotes Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. - Benjamin Franklin | Companionship Quotes Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely. - Benjamin Franklin | Companionship Quotes He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. - Benjamin Franklin | Introspection Quotes Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. - Benjamin Franklin | Life Quotes If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin | Lighten up Quotes Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion. - Benjamin Franklin | Wealth Quotes Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it. - Benjamin Franklin | Wealth Quotes At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment. - Benjamin Franklin | Age Quotes 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. - Benjamin Franklin | Bachelor Quotes 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. - Benjamin Franklin | Carelessness Quotes Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge. - Benjamin Franklin | Carelessness Quotes Little boats should keep near shore. - Benjamin Franklin | Caution Quotes Teach your child to hold his tongue, He'll learn fast enough to speak. - Benjamin Franklin | Childhood Quotes It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. - Benjamin Franklin | Desire Quotes Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others. - Benjamin Franklin | Dress Quotes Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. - Benjamin Franklin | Early Rising Quotes Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. - Benjamin Franklin | Economy Quotes If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. - Benjamin Franklin | Education Quotes None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing. - Benjamin Franklin | Example Quotes A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather. - Benjamin Franklin | Face Quotes If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing. - Benjamin Franklin | Fame Quotes There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. - Benjamin Franklin | Friends Quotes Keep flax from fire, youth from gaming. - Benjamin Franklin | Gambling Quotes We must all hang together, else we shalFall hang separately. - Benjamin Franklin | Hanging Quotes Take time for all things. - Benjamin Franklin | Haste Quotes After crosses and losses, men grow humbler and wiser. - Benjamin Franklin | Humility Quotes In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates. - Benjamin Franklin | Humility Quotes Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. - Benjamin Franklin | Law Quotes Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin | Liberty Quotes Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. - Benjamin Franklin | Life Quotes If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin | Love Quotes Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. - Benjamin Franklin | Marriage Quotes God heals and the doctor takes the fee. - Benjamin Franklin | Medicine Quotes He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines. - Benjamin Franklin | Medicine Quotes If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some. - Benjamin Franklin | Money Quotes Let they child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt. - Benjamin Franklin | Obedience Quotes Plough deep while sluggards sleep. - Benjamin Franklin | Opportunity Quotes He that can have patience can have what he will. - Benjamin Franklin | Patience Quotes Even peace may be purchased at too high a price. - Benjamin Franklin | Peace Quotes Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. - Benjamin Franklin | Pride Quotes The proud hate pride - in others. - Benjamin Franklin | Pride Quotes If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to. - Benjamin Franklin | Principle Quotes Mine is better than ours. - Benjamin Franklin | Property Quotes Mine is better than ours. - Benjamin Franklin | Property Quotes The best is the cheapest. - Benjamin Franklin | Quality Quotes If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it? - Benjamin Franklin | Religion Quotes He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities. - Benjamin Franklin | Rest Quotes He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. - Benjamin Franklin | Self-Love Quotes Fatigue is the best pillow. - Benjamin Franklin | Sleep Quotes Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of. - Benjamin Franklin | Time Quotes One today is worth two tomorrows. - Benjamin Franklin | Today Quotes Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. - Benjamin Franklin | Tomorrow Quotes We must all hang together or assuredly we shall hang separately. - Benjamin Franklin | Union Quotes There never was a good war or a bad peace. - Benjamin Franklin | War Quotes If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of getting. - Benjamin Franklin | Wealth Quotes An undutiful Daughter will prove an unmanageable Wife. - Benjamin Franklin | Wife Quotes Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise. - Benjamin Franklin | Wise Quotes If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles. - Benjamin Franklin | Wish Quotes Handle your tools without mittens. - Benjamin Franklin | Work Quotes A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees. - Benjamin Franklin | Work Quotes But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes. - Benjamin Franklin | World Quotes Reckless youth makes rueful age. - Benjamin Franklin | Youth Quotes If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin | Romantic Quotes If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin | Romantic Quotes If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin | Romantic Quotes If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin | Romantic Quotes If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin | Romantic Quotes If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin | Romantic Quotes If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin | Romantic Quotes If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin | Romantic Quotes 
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