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Dilettante Inspirational Quotes (795)

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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 previosly unsusceptible.
Benjamin Franklin
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The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.
Benjamin Franklin
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Dangerous, therefore, is it to take shelter under a tree, during a thunder-gust. It has been fatal to many, both men and beasts.
Benjamin Franklin
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Two dry Sticks will burn a green One.
Benjamin Franklin
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If you want something done, ask a busy person.
Benjamin Franklin
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An education is the investment with the greatest returns.
Benjamin Franklin
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Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring Never to Dulness, Weakness, or the Injury of your own or another's Peace or Reputation.
Benjamin Franklin
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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
Benjamin Franklin
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Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
Benjamin Franklin
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We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.
Benjamin Franklin
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It is better to take many injuries than to give one.
Benjamin Franklin
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Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
Benjamin Franklin
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I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.
Benjamin Franklin
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I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.
Benjamin Franklin
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A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
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The States acceded to the Union.
Benjamin Franklin
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Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?
Benjamin Franklin
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If you watch your pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves.
Benjamin Franklin
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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
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Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever
Joseph Priestley
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Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!
Benjamin Franklin
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It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin
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In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.
Benjamin Franklin
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That there is one God, who made all things. That he governs the world by his providence. That he might be worshipped by adoration, prayer, and thanksgiving. But that the most acceptable service of God is doing good to Man. That the Soul is immortal. And that God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.
Benjamin Franklin
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