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Much Virtue in Herbs, little in Men.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
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While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
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People are best convinced by things they themselves discover.
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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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If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
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If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.
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They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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Remember that credit is money.
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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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When women cease to be handsome, they study to be good.
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If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
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My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.
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