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Benjamin Franklin Inspirational Quotes (781)

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If you wou'd have Guests merry with your cheer, Be so your self, or so at least appear.
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My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.
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Nothing is more important for the public wealth than to form and train youth in wisdom and virtue. Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.
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We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
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The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.
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All cats look gray in the dark.
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Pity and forbearance should characterize all acts of justice.
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Mary's mouth cost her nothing for she never opens it but at others' expense.
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To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.
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You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion
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As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
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The two most beautiful sights I have witnessed in my life are a full blown ship at sail and the round-bellied pregnant female.
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Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things
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He that lives well, is learned enough.
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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
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He does not possess wealth it possesses him.
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It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being.
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There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
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O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me.
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A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
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I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night
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Resolve to perform what you ought perform without fail what you resolve.
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Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
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