Benjamin Franklin quotes - page 17

If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself. (Benjamin Franklin)
Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of. View quote
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A bargain is something you have to find a use for once you have bought it. View quote
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Lying rides upon debt's back. View quote
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Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. View quote
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Without justice, courage is weak. View quote
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Make use of your friends by being of use to them. View quote
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There's small revenge in words, But words may be greatly revenged. View quote
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Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not seem to require so much an active energy, as a passive aptitude of the soul in order to encounter it. But error is endlessly diversified; it has no reality, but is the pure and simple creation of the mind that invents it. In this field the soul has room enough to expand herself, to display all her boundless faculties, and all her beautiful and interesting extravagancies and absurdities. View quote
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After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy. View quote
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He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate. (Benjamin Franklin)
It is the observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own. View quote
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A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds. View quote
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The honest man takes pains, and then enjoys pleasures the knave takes pleasure, and then suffers pain. View quote
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He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security. View quote
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Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. View quote
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Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted. View quote
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To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare. View quote
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It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance. View quote
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Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding. View quote
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Trusting too much to others' care is the ruin of many. (Benjamin Franklin)
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife. View quote
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For age and want save while you may, No morning sun lasts a whole day. View quote
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When a religion is good, I conceive that it will support, itself and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it, so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its. View quote
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Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright. View quote
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