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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual charity mentioned by the apostle, which consisted in saying to the hungry, the cold and the naked, be ye fed, be ye warmed, be ye clothed, without showing them how they should get food, fire or clothing.
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Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.
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Some men grow mad by studying much to know, But who grows mad by studying good to grow.
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The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding Lies here. Food for Worms For, it will as he believed appear once more In a new and more elegant Edition corrected and improved By the Author.
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Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
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Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.
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Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.
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If you'd lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money.
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In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection, he stated. Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered. ... Do we imagine we no longer need His assistance?
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Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness.
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If you want something done, ask a busy person.
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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
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Opportunity is the great bawd.
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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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There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
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The man that walks wit crowd, will get no farther than the crowd. The man that walks alone, will reach places unknown.
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Be cheerful -- the problems that worry us most are those that never arrive.
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An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
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I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.
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