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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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Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in the different books that I read, I began to doubt of Revelation itself.
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Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself.
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Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.
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Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
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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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Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least, you will by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.
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Don't halloo until you're out of the wood.
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God helps those who help themselves.
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Honesty is the best policy.
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Eat to live, not live to eat.
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She that paints her Face, thinks of her Tail.
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I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men.
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Oh the wonderful knowledge to be found in the stars. Even the smallest things are written there ... if you had but skill to read.
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Willows are weak, but they bind the Faggot.
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Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.
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People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
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Graft good Fruit all, or graft not at all.
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Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
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I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'
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Get what you can, and what you get hold 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.
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