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Benjamin Franklin Inspirational Quotes (781)

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Half-wits talk much, but say little.
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The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty
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The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.
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What is best for people is what they do for themselves.
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Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves an essential role in government. Where a government takes proper measures to protect the people under its care, such a proceeding might have been thought both unnecessary and unjustifiable: But here it is quite the Reverse.
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Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety.
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Lying rides upon debt's back.
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The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.
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Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly.
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Honesty is the best policy.
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Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature.
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My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.
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What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
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The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off.
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The one who fails to prepare is preparing to fail.
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To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.
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To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
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A virtuous and industrious people may be cheaply governed.
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Let thy maid servant be faithful, strong, and homely.
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Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise
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It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on
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When religion is good, it will take care of itself. When it is not able to take care of itself, and God does not see fit to take care of it, so that it has to appeal to the civil power for support, it is evidence to my mind that its cause is a bad one.
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