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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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An old young man, will be a young old man.
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I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.
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Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
Benjamin Franklin
He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. - Ben Franklin
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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.
Benjamin Franklin
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Benjamin Franklin
What good shall I do this day?
Benjamin Franklin
I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.
Benjamin Franklin
What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?
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Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
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A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.
Benjamin Franklin
I have found Christian dogma unintelligible.
Benjamin Franklin
A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.
Benjamin Franklin
Fart for freedom, fart for liberty—and fart proudly.
Benjamin Franklin
What is best for people is what they do for themselves.
Benjamin Franklin
To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.
Benjamin Franklin
He that cannot obey, cannot command.
Benjamin Franklin
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Benjamin Franklin
My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.
Benjamin Franklin
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.
Benjamin Franklin
