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In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
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My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.
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Leisure is the time for doing something useful.
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They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
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Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.
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If you have time don't wait for time.
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To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previosly unsusceptible.
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Love of country is the Mason's deed world citizenship is his thought.
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He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.
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Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.
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Thank God! we are in the full enjoyment of all these privileges. But can we be taught to prize them too much? or how can we prize them equal to their value, if we do not know their intrinsic worth, and that they are 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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No gains without pains.
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No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.
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I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue. Wise and good men are in my opinion, the strength of the state more so than riches or arms.
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Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery.
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The sun of liberty is set you must light up the candle of industry and economy.
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Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
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Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
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The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.
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