Benjamin Franklin quotes - page 10

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier. (Benjamin Franklin)
Applause waits on success. View quote
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God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man. View quote
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Beware the hobby that eats. View quote
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Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. View quote
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Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude. View quote
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Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease. View quote
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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments. View quote
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When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration? View quote
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An egg today is better than a hen tomorrow. View quote
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The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise. (Benjamin Franklin)
If you wouldn't live long, live well for folly and wickedness shorten life. View quote
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The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution. View quote
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It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. View quote
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Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable. View quote
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He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner. View quote
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He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. View quote
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In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. View quote
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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. View quote
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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first. View quote
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If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. (Benjamin Franklin)
Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes. View quote
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When you're finished changing, you're finished. View quote
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The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing. View quote
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He that rises late must trot all day. View quote
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