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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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O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me.
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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 ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
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What is best for people is what they do for themselves.
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It is better to take many injuries than to give one.
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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.
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Without justice, courage is weak.
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Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy
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You may sometimes be much in the Wrong, in owning your being in the Right.
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Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.
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Whether a Commonwealth suffers more by hypocritical pretenders to religion or by the openly profane? The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law.
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He's gone, and forgot nothing but to say farewell to his creditors
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You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.
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If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
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Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband.
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The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit.
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By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favorable chance, and that of persevering in the secrets of resources
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Why should I give my Readers bad lines of my own when good ones of other People's are so plenty?
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