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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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When religion is good, it will take care of itself. When it is not able to take care of itself, and God does not see fit to take care of it, so that it has to appeal to the civil power for support, it is evidence to my mind that its cause is a bad one.
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To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
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You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
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The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.
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'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.
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Games lubricate the body and the mind.
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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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If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
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It is better to take many injuries than to give one.
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To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
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In Truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order and now I am grown old, and my Memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it.
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I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.
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Let thy vices die before thee.
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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
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Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and the moon to stand still - and they obeyed.
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In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, What is he? but, What can he do?
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Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
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Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
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There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
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On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.
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