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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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Certainlie these things agree, The Priest, the Lawyer, & Death all three: Death takes both the weak and the strong. The lawyer takes from both right and wrong, And the priest from living and dead has his Fee.
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The wise and the brave dares own that he was wrong.
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Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in the common occurrences of life, as well as in a battle. How many impertinences do we daily suffer with great uneasiness, because we have not courage enough to discover our dislike.
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If you want to be loved, love and be loveable.
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Do you love life? Then don't waste time, because time is life!
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Be civil to all serviceable to many familiar with few friend to one enemy to none.
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A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.
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I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.
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Without industry and frugality, nothing will do with them, everything.
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That there is one God, who made all things. That he governs the world by his providence. That he might be worshipped by adoration, prayer, and thanksgiving. But that the most acceptable service of God is doing good to Man. That the Soul is immortal. And that God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.
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Snowy winter, a plentiful harvest.
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
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Eat what you like, but dress for other people.
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Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.
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The one who fails to prepare is preparing to fail.
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I early found that when I worked for myself alone, myself alone worked for me but when I worked for others also, others worked also for me.
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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.
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There's no gain, without pain.
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Learn of the skillful he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.
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Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults greater to tell him his.
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