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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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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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Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?
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The purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting.
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Beauty and folly are old companions.
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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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Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
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No gains without pains.
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A lighthouse is more useful than a church.
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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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In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and nobody pities their Case.
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To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
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Lost time can never be found again
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When you are good to others, you are best to yourself.
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It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
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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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