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If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Masonic labor is purely a labor of love. He who seeks to draw Masonic wages in gold and silver will be disappointed. The wages of a Mason are in the dealings with one another sympathy begets sympathy, kindness begets kindness, helpfulness begets helpfulness, and these are the wages of a Mason.
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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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He that cannot obey, cannot command.
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Hope of gain lessens pain.
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He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.
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Many have quarreled about religion that never practice it.
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Without industry and frugality, nothing will do with them, everything.
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You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.
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If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
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Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one.
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The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?'
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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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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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'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.
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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.
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What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . . . Happiness springs immediately from the mind.
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Men differ daily about things which are subject to sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible.
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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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He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.
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The best tranquilizer is a clear conscience.
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