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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Evils come not, then our fears are vain And if they do fear but augments the pain.
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Teach your child to hold his tongue he'll learn fast enough to speak.
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The doors of wisdom are never shut.
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In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
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Trouble Springs From Idleness.
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Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things
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Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring Never to Dulness, Weakness, or the Injury of your own or another's Peace or Reputation.
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Those things that hurt, instruct.
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If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.
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Be civil to all serviceable to many familiar with few friend to one enemy to none.
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Do you love life? Then don't waste time, because time is life!
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Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire.
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Eat to live, not live to eat.
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I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.
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Evil, as evil, can never be chosen and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good.
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Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.
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To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.
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