Benjamin Franklin quotes - page 22

If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty. (Benjamin Franklin)
Half wits talk much, but say little. View quote
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Let thy discontents be thy secrets. View quote
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Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession. View quote
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A dying man can do nothing easy. View quote
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A man is not completely born until he be dead. View quote
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God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter. View quote
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A fat kitchen, a lean will. View quote
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Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous. View quote
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Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest But I mean such wives as are none of the best. View quote
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Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that makes it. (Benjamin Franklin)
By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old. View quote
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That as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously. View quote
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Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster. View quote
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That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing. View quote
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Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence. View quote
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He that speaks ill of the mare will buy her. View quote
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A wicked Hero will turn his back to an innocent coward. View quote
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That Quantity that is sufficient, the Stomach can perfectly concoct and digest, and it sufficeth the due Nourishment of the Body. View quote
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Prayers and Provender hinder no Journey. View quote
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Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life A man is not completely born till he has passed through death. (Benjamin Franklin)
A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather. View quote
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Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. View quote
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He that sells upon Credit, expects to lose 5 per Cent. by bad Debts therefore he charges, on all he sells upon Credit, an Advance that shall make up that Deficiency. View quote
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I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people. View quote
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