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What is best for people is what they do for themselves.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off.
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It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.
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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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The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.
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I think opinions should be judged by their influences and effects and if a man holds none that tend to make him less virtuous or more vicious, it may be concluded that he holds none that are dangerous, which I hope is the case with me.
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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
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Eat what you like, but dress for other people.
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There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah - get first all the people's money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants forever.
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A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.
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I know as well as thee that I am no poet born It is a trade, I never learnt nor indeed could learn If I make verses-'tis in spite Of nature and my stars I write.
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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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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
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They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
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A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
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Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the world, we had need be very circumspect lest we do more harm than good.
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My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.
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He that speaks ill of the mare will buy her.
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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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Let thy vices die before thee.
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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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