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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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Thank God! we are in the full enjoyment of all these privileges. But can we be taught to prize them too much? or how can we prize them equal to their value, if we do not know their intrinsic worth, and that they are not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature?
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Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.
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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
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When you are done changing, you're done.
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My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me right at the time, leaving the consequences with Providence.
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He that lieth down with Dogs, shall rise up with Fleas.
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Praise little, dispraise less.
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An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught.
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Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money.
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
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Your argument is sound, nothing but sound.
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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
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Most people die at 25 but are buried at 75.
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Oh the wonderful knowledge to be found in the stars. Even the smallest things are written there ... if you had but skill to read.
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Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
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Our necessities never equal our wants.
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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
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History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public the advantage of a religious character among private persons the mischiefs of superstition, and the excellency of the Christian religion above all others, ancient or modern.
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Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
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I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.
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