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He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me.
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Evils come not, then our fears are vain And if they do fear but augments the pain.
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Don't halloo until you're out of the wood.
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The wise and the brave dares own that he was wrong.
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When men are employed they are best contented.
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Fear to do ill, and you need fear else.
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He that hath a trade hath an estate and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
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Christianity commands us to pass by injuries policy, to let them pass by us.
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A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.
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Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself avoid trifling conversation.
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Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.
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If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.
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Hold your Council before Dinner the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting.
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Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting.
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Man is a tool-making animal
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He that doth what he should not, shall feel what he would not.
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A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine.
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