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Those who are fear'd, are hated.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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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.
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We can defer, yet time is most certainly not.
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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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If you give up your freedom for safety, you don't deserve either one
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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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Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself.
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By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.
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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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Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.
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Take courage, Mortal... Death cannot banish you from the Universe.
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The doors of wisdom are never shut.
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I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil.
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Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.
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Security without liberty is called prison.
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