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Dilettante Inspirational Quotes (795)

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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
Benjamin Franklin
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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Benjamin Franklin
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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Benjamin Franklin
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You will discover 3 trustworthy mates, an aged wife, an aged canine, and ready dollars.
Benjamin Franklin
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Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.
Benjamin Franklin
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Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Benjamin Franklin
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Thank God! we are in the full enjoyment of all these privileges. But can we be taught to prize them too much? or how can we prize them equal to their value, if we do not know their intrinsic worth, and that they are not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature?
Benjamin Franklin
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Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy
Benjamin Franklin
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Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
Benjamin Franklin
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In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection, he stated. Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered. ... Do we imagine we no longer need His assistance?
Benjamin Franklin
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Beauty and folly are old companions.
Benjamin Franklin
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Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Benjamin Franklin
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A little neglect may breed great mischief.
Benjamin Franklin
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Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet!
Benjamin Franklin
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There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Benjamin Franklin
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Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.
Benjamin Franklin
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Quarrels never could last long, if on one side only lay the wrong.
Benjamin Franklin
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Success is the residue of planning.
Benjamin Franklin
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A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.
Benjamin Franklin
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A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
Benjamin Franklin
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In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If there is no other Use discover'd of Electricity, this, however, is something considerable, that it may help to make a vain Man humble.
Benjamin Franklin
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Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.
Joseph Priestley
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Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband.
Benjamin Franklin
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A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.
Benjamin Franklin
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