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The things which hurt, instruct.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Those who are content have enough those that complain, have too much.
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Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and buckler, thy helmet and crown then shall thy soul walk upright, nor stoop to the silken wretch because he hath riches, nor pocket an abuse because the hand which offers it wears a ring set with diamonds.
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That there is one God, who made all things. That he governs the world by his providence. That he might be worshipped by adoration, prayer, and thanksgiving. But that the most acceptable service of God is doing good to Man. That the Soul is immortal. And that God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.
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Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
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Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.
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There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure and that is to try to please everyone else.
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No man ever was glorious, who was not laborious.
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Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself avoid trifling conversation.
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I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.
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The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.
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A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
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... there is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.'
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Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.
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A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.
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When you are done changing, you're done.
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Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures.
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Doing an injury puts you below your enemy revenging one make you but even with him forgiving it sets you above him.
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Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.
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Love of country is the Mason's deed world citizenship is his thought.
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In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.
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