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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously. In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
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The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit.
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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
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When women cease to be handsome, they study to be good.
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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
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Little rogues easily become great ones.
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I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.
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What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . . . Happiness springs immediately from 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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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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Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them.
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I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.
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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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Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim the bird that sits is easily shot.
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When you're testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.
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Lost time can never be found again
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Leisure is the time for doing something useful.
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Don't cry over spilled milk
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