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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. - Ben Franklin
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Oh the wonderful knowledge to be found in the stars. Even the smallest things are written there ... if you had but skill to read.
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We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.
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Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife.
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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
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Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim the bird that sits is easily shot.
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A lighthouse is more useful than a church.
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Hold your Council before Dinner the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting.
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I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.
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Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
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A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine.
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Love well, whip well.
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Neglect kills injuries, revenge increases them.
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Nature performs the cure, the physician takes the fee.
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Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
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If better is possible, good is not enough
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Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in the different books that I read, I began to doubt of Revelation itself.
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Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest But I mean such wives as are none of the best
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Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.
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One today is worth two tomorrows.
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