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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.
Benjamin Franklin
The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.
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O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me.
Benjamin Franklin
Many have quarreled about religion that never practice it.
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Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself avoid trifling conversation.
Benjamin Franklin
You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them.
Benjamin Franklin
Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty
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Where there's no law, there's no bread.
Benjamin Franklin
Great talkers should be cropt, for they've no need of ears.
Benjamin Franklin
The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.
Benjamin Franklin
America cultivates best what Germany brought forth.
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The apostle Paul very seriously advised Timothy to put some wine in his water for health's sake, but not one of the apostles nor any of the holy fathers have ever recommended putting water in wine
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The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise the second to profess it the third to despise Counsel.
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Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.
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There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
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Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.
Benjamin Franklin
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin Franklin
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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Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety.
Benjamin Franklin
At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.
Benjamin Franklin
