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Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.
Benjamin Franklin
A lighthouse is more useful than a church.
Benjamin Franklin
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.
Benjamin Franklin
Genius is the ability to hold one's vision steady until it becomes reality
Benjamin Franklin
The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends
Benjamin Franklin
Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation.
Benjamin Franklin
If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?
Benjamin Franklin
Without industry and frugality, nothing will do with them, everything.
Benjamin Franklin
A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost for want of a shoe, the horse was lost for want of a horse, the battle was lost for want of the battle, the war was lost.
Benjamin Franklin
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Benjamin Franklin
What good shall I do this day?
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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 are willing to forfeit liberty for security will have neither.
Benjamin Franklin
I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being. [...] I believe He is pleased and delights in the happiness of those He has created and since without virtue man can have no happiness in this world, I firmly believe He delights to see me virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin
I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead.
Benjamin Franklin
... there is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.'
Benjamin Franklin
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
Benjamin Franklin
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
Benjamin Franklin
When men are employed they are best contented.
Benjamin Franklin
Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.
Benjamin Franklin
