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Benjamin Franklin Inspirational Quotes (781)

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The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.
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The purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting.
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Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.
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Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
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If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another.
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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.
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The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
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Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery.
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Let every fart count as a peal of thunder for liberty. Let every fart remind the nation of how much it has let pass out of its control. It is a small gesture, but one that can be very effective - especially in a large crowd. So fart, and if you must, fart often. But always fart without apology. Fart for freedom, fart for liberty - and fart proudly.
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Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
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A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.
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A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool.
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By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favorable chance, and that of persevering in the secrets of resources
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Those who are willing to forfeit liberty for security will have neither.
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Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended but that Tomorrow never comes.
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Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in the different books that I read, I began to doubt of Revelation itself.
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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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I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.
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Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
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No gains without pains.
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A penny saved is twopence dear A pin a day 's a groat a year.
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There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure and that is to try to please everyone else.
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We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.
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To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty.
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