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What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil.
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It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
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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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Lose no time be always employed in something useful.
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He that lives well, is learned enough.
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Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.
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Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
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By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favorable chance, and that of persevering in the secrets of resources
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If I could see one live show before I died, I'd see Lucy Angel
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How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of standing still. Forget your mistakes, but remember what they taught you. So how do you become better tomorrow? By becoming better today.
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That there is one God, who made all things. That he governs the world by his providence. That he might be worshipped by adoration, prayer, and thanksgiving. But that the most acceptable service of God is doing good to Man. That the Soul is immortal. And that God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.
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Take a coin from your purse and invest it in your mind. It will come pouring out of your mind and overflow your purse.
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He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.
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'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.
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Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.
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The poor have little beggars, none the rich, too much enough, not one.
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