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He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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No gains without pains.
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Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
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The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent.
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Proclaim not all though knowest, or all though owest.
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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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Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.
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Great talkers should be cropt, for they've no need of ears.
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If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
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He who will not be counseled cannot be helped.
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He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
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But the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses nor fine furniture.
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He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.
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Fear to do ill, and you need fear else.
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No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.
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Diligence overcomes difficulties sloth makes them.
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All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be taken in the Order of the moral than in the natural System?
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It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
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