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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Masonic labor is purely a labor of love. He who seeks to draw Masonic wages in gold and silver will be disappointed. The wages of a Mason are in the dealings with one another sympathy begets sympathy, kindness begets kindness, helpfulness begets helpfulness, and these are the wages of a Mason.
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Do not let fancy outrun your means.
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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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Don't go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst.
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There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.
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Hope of gain lessens pain.
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He that speaks ill of the mare will buy her.
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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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Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.
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Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
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Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.
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The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.
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He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.
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Great talkers are little doers.
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Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and the moon to stand still - and they obeyed.
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Grace thou thy house and let not that grace thee.
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