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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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When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.
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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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Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet!
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Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?
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Why does the blind man's wife paint herself.
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Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
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Never confuse motion with action.
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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
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Love well, whip well.
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All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be taken in the Order of the moral than in the natural System?
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an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, therefore, every free state hath a right by its laws to discourage the possession of such property.
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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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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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Learn of the skillful he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.
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The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature.
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'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.
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Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.
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Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
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If you would not be forgotten, do things worth remembering.
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The borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.
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