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Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another.
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Some make Conscience of wearing a Hat in the Church, who make none of robbing the Altar.
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A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.
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It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.
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Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.
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The States acceded to the Union.
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Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar.
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Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly.
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A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.
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He that doth what he should not, shall feel what he would not.
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Before you consult your fancy, consult your purse.
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Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
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The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution.
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When you are done changing, you're done.
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We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously. In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
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He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines.
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He that sows Thorns, should never go barefoot.
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Nothing is more important for the public wealth than to form and train youth in wisdom and virtue. Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.
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Snowy winter, a plentiful harvest.
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