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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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The wise and the brave dares own that he was wrong.
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Remember that credit is money.
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Certainlie these things agree, The Priest, the Lawyer, & Death all three: Death takes both the weak and the strong. The lawyer takes from both right and wrong, And the priest from living and dead has his Fee.
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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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Mankind are very odd creatures: one half censure what they practice, the other half practice what they censure the rest always say and do as they ought.
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The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.
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He that hath a trade hath an estate and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
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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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Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.
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Evil, as evil, can never be chosen and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good.
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Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.
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One today is worth two tomorrows. Lost time is never found again. Time is money. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff that life is made of. You may delay, but time will not.
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Proclaim not all though knowest, or all though owest.
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Many have quarreled about religion that never practice it.
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A friend in need is a friend indeed!
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