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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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More quotes by Benjamin Franklin
A lighthouse is more useful than a church.
Benjamin Franklin
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
Benjamin Franklin
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
Benjamin Franklin
A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society?
Benjamin Franklin
Let thy vices die before thee.
Benjamin Franklin
Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
You may sometimes be much in the Wrong, in owning your being in the Right.
Benjamin Franklin
Joy doesn't exist in the world, it exists in us.
Benjamin Franklin
Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Benjamin Franklin
It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.
Benjamin Franklin
Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and oppressors, and a barrier against them. It produces excellent writers, and encourages men of fine genius.
Benjamin Franklin
Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist.
Benjamin Franklin
Make the best use of both time and money. Add industry and frugal dealings if they pay very well and if you're free to it.
Benjamin Franklin
You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them.
Benjamin Franklin
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.
Benjamin Franklin
Increase in me that wisdom Which discovers my truest interest, Strengthen my resolution To perform that which wisdom dictates.
Benjamin Franklin
Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.
Benjamin Franklin
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Benjamin Franklin
He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.
Benjamin Franklin