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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Never confuse motion with action.
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The one who fails to prepare is preparing to fail.
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There are three sorts of people in the world: Those who are immovable, people who don't get it, or don't want to do anything about it there are people who are movable, people who see the need for change and are prepared to listen to it and there are people who move, people who make things happen.
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Whether a Commonwealth suffers more by hypocritical pretenders to religion or by the openly profane? The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law.
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And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?
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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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Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.
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Freedom is 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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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
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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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I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.
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You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.
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If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.
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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
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Nothing is more important for the public wealth than to form and train youth in wisdom and virtue. Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.
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Everybody's human-everybody makes mistakes. If you laugh it off and keep going and try to give it your best the next time around, people respect that.
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A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
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An education is the investment with the greatest returns.
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Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.
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