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Never confuse motion with action.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and oppressors, and a barrier against them. It produces excellent writers, and encourages men of fine genius.
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An Episcopalian divine once told the Pope that the only difference between their denominations was that the Church of Rome is infallible and the Church of England is never in the wrong.
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Hold your Council before Dinner the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting.
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Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
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Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in the different books that I read, I began to doubt of Revelation itself.
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No gains without pains.
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Where there's no law, there's no bread.
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Make the best use of both time and money. Add industry and frugal dealings if they pay very well and if you're free to it.
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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?
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Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith.
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As often as we do good, we sacrifice.
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He who will not be counseled cannot be helped.
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An assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth.
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What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things.
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Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation.
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Never contradict anybody.
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He does not possess wealth it possesses him.
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Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly.
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A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.
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The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off.
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