Benjamin Franklin quotes - page 23

By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable. (Benjamin Franklin)
The good or ill hap of a good or ill life, is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife. View quote
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Never contradict anybody. View quote
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There is much money given to be laught at, though the purchasers don't know it witness A's fine horse, and B's fine house. View quote
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No gain without pains. View quote
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Nor Eye in a letter, nor Hand in a purse, nor Ear in the secret of another. View quote
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Seek Virtue, and, of that possessed, To Providence, resign the rest. View quote
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None are deceived but they that confide. View quote
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What maintains one vice would bring up two children. View quote
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He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night. View quote
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How many observe Christ's birthday How few, his precepts O 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments. (Benjamin Franklin)
Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first. View quote
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Geese are but Geese tho' we may think 'em Swans; and Truth will be Truth tho' it sometimes prove mortifying and distasteful. View quote
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When they ardently desire of Victory, for the Sake of the Praise attending it, they will begin to feel the want, and be sensible of the use of the Use of Logic, or the Art of Reasoning to discover Truth, and of Arguing to defend it, and convince adversaries. View quote
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Hence the Public has the Right of Regulating Descents & all other Conveyances of Property, and even of limiting the Quantity & the Uses of it. View quote
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In short, you offered a premium for the encouragement of idleness, and you should not now wonder that it has had its effect in the increase of poverty. View quote
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I would advise you therefore not to attempt unchaining the Tyger, but to burn this Piece before it is seen by any other Person. View quote
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But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting Sun. View quote
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But think how great a Proportion of Mankind consists of weak and ignorant Men and Women, and of inexperienc'd and inconsiderate Youth of both Sexes, who have need of the Motives of Religion to restrain them from Vice, to support their Virtue, and retain them in the Practice of it till it becomes habitual. View quote
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I was on the whole much pleased, and from what I then saw, have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race, than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension seems as quick, their memory as strong, and their docility in every respect equal to that of white children. View quote
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As to Jesus of Nazareth, my Opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the System of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is likely to see. (Benjamin Franklin)
For the Arguments of the Deists which were quoted to be refuted, appeared to me much Stronger than the Refutations. In short I soon became a thorough Deist. View quote
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At present I shall only give you my Opinion that tho' your Reasonings are subtle, and may prevail with some Readers, you will not succeed so as to change the general Sentiments of Mankind on that Subject, and the Consequence of printing this Piece will be a great deal of Odium drawn upon your self, Mischief to you and no Benefit to others. He that spits against the Wind, spits in his own Face. View quote
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We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing. View quote
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A nation of well-informed men, who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them, cannot be enslaved. View quote
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