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Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity.
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Revealed religion has no weight with me.
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Conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it.
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Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy
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A fat kitchin, a lean Will.
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Take time for all things.
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We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously. In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
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If you have time don't wait for time.
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Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.
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You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them.
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It is the man and woman united that makes the complete human being. Separate she lacks his force of body and strength of reason he her softness, sensibility and acute discernment. Together they are most likely to succeed in the world.
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Those who are willing to forfeit liberty for security will have neither.
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A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.
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No gains without pains.
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Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world.
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One of the advantages of being a 'reasonable creature' is that one can find a reason for whatever one wants to do.
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