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Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what you feel that is common or that may be useful for this will be the best method of imprinting such portcullis in your memory.
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A virtuous and industrious people may be cheaply governed.
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Strive to be the best and you may succeed: he may well win the race that runs by himself.
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For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
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On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it.
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One today is worth two tomorrows.
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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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Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith.
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There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.
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In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
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An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due.
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Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long after they begin to parley.
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Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended but that Tomorrow never comes.
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The man that walks wit crowd, will get no farther than the crowd. The man that walks alone, will reach places unknown.
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Nothing preaches better than the act.
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A little neglect may breed great mischief.
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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
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If you want something done, ask a busy person.
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