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The world is run by the people who show up.
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 you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants to see us happy.
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A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.
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Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and buckler, thy helmet and crown then shall thy soul walk upright, nor stoop to the silken wretch because he hath riches, nor pocket an abuse because the hand which offers it wears a ring set with diamonds.
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By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.
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O Lazy bones! Dost thou think God would have given thee arms and legs, if he had not design'd thou should'st use them?
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To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.
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Lost time can never be found again
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What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?
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Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.
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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
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Our necessities never equal our wants.
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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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Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
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We can defer, yet time is most certainly not.
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One today is worth two tomorrows.
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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
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One day is worth a thousand tomorrows.
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To get the bad customs of a country changed and new ones, though better, introduced, it is necessary first to remove the prejudices of the people, enlighten their ignorance, and convince them that their interests will be promoted by the proposed changes and this is not the work of a day.
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What is best for people is what they do for themselves.
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The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?'
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