Benjamin Franklin quotes - page 11

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. (Benjamin Franklin)
To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light. View quote
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To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly. View quote
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Where liberty dwells, there is my country. View quote
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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. View quote
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We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness. View quote
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Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. View quote
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You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife? View quote
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Games lubricate the body and the mind. View quote
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She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth. View quote
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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. (Benjamin Franklin)
Our necessities never equal our wants. View quote
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All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse. View quote
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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion. View quote
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Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others. View quote
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When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it. View quote
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Tolerate no Uncleanliness in Body, Clothes, or Habitation. View quote
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It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. View quote
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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. View quote
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A place for everything, everything in its place. View quote
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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter. (Benjamin Franklin)
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. View quote
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Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities. View quote
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Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs. View quote
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The first mistake in public business is the going into it. View quote
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