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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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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.
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We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.
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If you would not be forgotten, do things worth remembering.
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There are three sorts of people in the world: Those who are immovable, people who don't get it, or don't want to do anything about it there are people who are movable, people who see the need for change and are prepared to listen to it and there are people who move, people who make things happen.
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And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?
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There is much money given to be laughed at, though the purchasers don't know it witness A.'s fine horse, and B.'s fine house.
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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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All cats are gray in the dark.
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Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
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Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in the common occurrences of life, as well as in a battle. How many impertinences do we daily suffer with great uneasiness, because we have not courage enough to discover our dislike.
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Cunning proceeds from want of capacity.
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Money makes money. And the money that makes money makes more money.
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Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.
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To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty.
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Joy doesn't exist in the world, it exists in us.
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On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.
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I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.
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Practice makes perfect.
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That the vegetable creation should restore the air which is spoiled by the animal part of it, looks like a rational system, and seems to be of a piece with the rest.
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