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Force shites upon Reason's Back.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.
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What is best for people is what they do for themselves.
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Certainlie these things agree, The Priest, the Lawyer, & Death all three: Death takes both the weak and the strong. The lawyer takes from both right and wrong, And the priest from living and dead has his Fee.
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The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
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The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.
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Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility they think the same of theirs.
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Love well, whip well.
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Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist.
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Hope of gain lessens pain.
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Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
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Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness.
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Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting.
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Great talkers are little doers.
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When women cease to be handsome, they study to be good.
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I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.
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A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.
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A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts.
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Be not sick too late, nor well too soon
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Genius is the ability to hold one's vision steady until it becomes reality
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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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