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Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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It might be judged an affront to your understanding should I go about to prove this first principle the existence of a Diety and that He is the Creator of the universe, for that would suppose you ignorant of what all mankind in all ages have agreed in.
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Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself.
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Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety.
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Learn of the skillful he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.
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Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
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If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But Money lost may be found what we are robb'd of may be restored: The Treasure of Time once lost, can never be recovered yet we squander it as tho' 'twere nothing worth, or we had no Use for it.
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I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.
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No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.
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O Lazy bones! Dost thou think God would have given thee arms and legs, if he had not design'd thou should'st use them?
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You will discover 3 trustworthy mates, an aged wife, an aged canine, and ready dollars.
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Those things that hurt, instruct.
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How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of standing still. Forget your mistakes, but remember what they taught you. So how do you become better tomorrow? By becoming better today.
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Much Virtue in Herbs, little in Men.
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The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion.
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History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public the advantage of a religious character among private persons the mischiefs of superstition, and the excellency of the Christian religion above all others, ancient or modern.
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Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.
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In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top.
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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
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One today is worth two tomorrows. Lost time is never found again. Time is money. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff that life is made of. You may delay, but time will not.
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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
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