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He who will not be counseled cannot be helped.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Poor Richard
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Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
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...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.
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You have two choices, write about something of significance or do something someone wants to write about.
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Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world.
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Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.
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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
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He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines.
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A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
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You will discover 3 trustworthy mates, an aged wife, an aged canine, and ready dollars.
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Whether a Commonwealth suffers more by hypocritical pretenders to religion or by the openly profane? The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law.
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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.
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I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.
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He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
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The best is the cheapest.
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Neglect kills injuries, revenge increases them.
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Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
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When men are employed they are best contented.
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I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.
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When you are done changing, you're done.
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