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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
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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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People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.
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La pereza anda tan despacio que la pobreza no tarda en alcanzarla.
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The busy man has few idle visitors to the boiling pot the flies come not.
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A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin
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There is always room for the man of force.
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Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.
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It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
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O Lazy bones! Dost thou think God would have given thee arms and legs, if he had not design'd thou should'st use them?
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Your best investment is to pour your purse into your head, and no one can take it away from you.
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It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
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In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.
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When about 16 Years of Age, I happened to meet with a Book written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet. I determined to go into it.... My refusing to eat Flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.
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Be cheerful -- the problems that worry us most are those that never arrive.
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As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
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An old young man, will be a young old man.
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Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.
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At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.
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