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Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due.
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Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.
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The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.
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Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
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What can laws do without morals?
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It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on
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The only time not wasted is wasted time.
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Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.
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The busy man has few idle visitors to the boiling pot the flies come not.
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In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and nobody pities their Case.
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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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Hereafter, if you should observe an occasion to give your officers and friends a little more praise than is their due, and confess more fault than you can justly be charged with, you will only become the sooner for it, a great captain.
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Love of country is the Mason's deed world citizenship is his thought.
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Anyone willing to give up liberty in exchange for security deserves neither.
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People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
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Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the world, we had need be very circumspect lest we do more harm than good.
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Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves an essential role in government. Where a government takes proper measures to protect the people under its care, such a proceeding might have been thought both unnecessary and unjustifiable: But here it is quite the Reverse.
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Don't cry over spilled milk
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There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
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There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.
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