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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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If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But Money lost may be found what we are robb'd of may be restored: The Treasure of Time once lost, can never be recovered yet we squander it as tho' 'twere nothing worth, or we had no Use for it.
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He does not possess wealth it possesses him.
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Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away.
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The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.
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It might be judged an affront to your understanding should I go about to prove this first principle the existence of a Diety and that He is the Creator of the universe, for that would suppose you ignorant of what all mankind in all ages have agreed in.
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Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.
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The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
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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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Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
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If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.
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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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Eat to live, not live to eat.
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All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
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