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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others.
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Practice makes perfect.
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Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
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He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
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He that speaks ill of the mare will buy her.
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Do not let fancy outrun your means.
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A light purse is a heavy curse.
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He that drinks fast, pays slow.
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How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of standing still. Forget your mistakes, but remember what they taught you. So how do you become better tomorrow? By becoming better today.
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Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
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It is very imprudent to deprive America of any of her privileges. If her commerce and friendship are of any importance to you, they are to be had on no other terms than leaving her in the full enjoyment of her rights.
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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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La pereza anda tan despacio que la pobreza no tarda en alcanzarla.
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Masonic labor is purely a labor of love. He who seeks to draw Masonic wages in gold and silver will be disappointed. The wages of a Mason are in the dealings with one another sympathy begets sympathy, kindness begets kindness, helpfulness begets helpfulness, and these are the wages of a Mason.
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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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There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine.
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Do not do that which you would not have known.
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The busy man has few idle visitors to the boiling pot the flies come not.
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