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Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? I move that prayer imploring the assistance of Heaven be held every morning before we proceed to business.
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They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
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I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, Without vanity I may say, etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.
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Many have quarreled about religion that never practice it.
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Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith.
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If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But Money lost may be found what we are robb'd of may be restored: The Treasure of Time once lost, can never be recovered yet we squander it as tho' 'twere nothing worth, or we had no Use for it.
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One of the advantages of being a 'reasonable creature' is that one can find a reason for whatever one wants to do.
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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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God helps those who help themselves.
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One mend-fault is worth two find-faults, but one find-fault is better than two make-faults.
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If you have no Honey in your Pot, have some in your Mouth.
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Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband.
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A light purse is a heavy curse.
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A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
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Hold your Council before Dinner the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting.
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Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor.
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