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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Benjamin Franklin
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.
Benjamin Franklin
Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.
Benjamin Franklin
He that's content hath enough.
Benjamin Franklin
Lost time can never be found again
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Let thy discontents be thy secrets
Benjamin Franklin
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.
Benjamin Franklin
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
Benjamin Franklin
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
Benjamin Franklin
To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previosly unsusceptible.
Benjamin Franklin
Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
Benjamin Franklin
Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
Benjamin Franklin
Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.
Benjamin Franklin
Take courage, Mortal... Death cannot banish you from the Universe.
Benjamin Franklin
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
Benjamin Franklin
Joy doesn't exist in the world, it exists in us.
Benjamin Franklin
On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.
Benjamin Franklin
Fish and visitors stink in three days.
Benjamin Franklin
God helps those who help themselves.
Benjamin Franklin
You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.
Benjamin Franklin
