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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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If we are industrious, we shall never starve for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.
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Some men grow mad by studying much to know, But who grows mad by studying good to grow.
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In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye/ Each little speck and blemish find/ To our own stronger errors blind.
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Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
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Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself.
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Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
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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?
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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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A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth.
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A virtuous and industrious people may be cheaply governed.
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Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?
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I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.
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Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.
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I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.
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Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.
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A dying man can do nothing easy.
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A true friend is the greatest possesion.
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An assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth.
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If you would not be forgotten, do things worth remembering.
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I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.
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