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Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.
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Christianity commands us to pass by injuries policy, to let them pass by us.
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Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
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An assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth.
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All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
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Masonic labor is purely a labor of love. He who seeks to draw Masonic wages in gold and silver will be disappointed. The wages of a Mason are in the dealings with one another sympathy begets sympathy, kindness begets kindness, helpfulness begets helpfulness, and these are the wages of a Mason.
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Half-wits talk much, but say little.
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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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