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In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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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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Evil, as evil, can never be chosen and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good.
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Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature.
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'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones . . . and little strokes fell great oaks, as Poor Richard says. . . .
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A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law
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Love, Cough, & a Smoke, can't well be hid.
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...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.
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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
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Let thy discontents be thy secrets
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But the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses nor fine furniture.
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Genius is the ability to hold one's vision steady until it becomes reality
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Honesty is the best policy.
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The cat in gloves catches no mice.
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If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another.
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To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previosly unsusceptible.
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In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If there is no other Use discover'd of Electricity, this, however, is something considerable, that it may help to make a vain Man humble.
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If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
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Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
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Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.
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Men differ daily about things which are subject to sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible.
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