Benjamin Franklin quotes - page 25

No longer virtuous no longer free is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth. (Benjamin Franklin)
Don't overload Gratitude if you do, she'll kick. View quote
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Diligence overcomes difficulties, sloth makes them. View quote
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Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the key often used is always bright. View quote
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If you do what you should not, you must bear what you would not. View quote
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Beware of meat twice boiled, And an old foe reconciled. View quote
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Take Courage, Mortal Death can't banish thee out of the Universe. View quote
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A small leak can sink a great ship. View quote
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Drive your business, let not you're business drive you. View quote
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Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife. View quote
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The busy man has few idle visitors, to the boiling pot, the flies come out. (Benjamin Franklin)
If you want to keep a secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend. View quote
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Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy, counsel, countenance. View quote
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The next thing most like living ones life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing. View quote
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There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him. View quote
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At the working man's house, hunger looks in but dares not enter. View quote
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He's a Fool that cannot conceal his Wisdom. View quote
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On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read. View quote
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It's the easiest Thing in the World for a Man to deceive himself. View quote
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Our friend and we were invited aboard on a party of pleasure, which is to last forever. His chair was ready first, and he has gone before us. We could not all conveniently start together and why should you and I be grieved at this, since we are soon to follow, and know where to find him. View quote
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He that steals the old man's supper, do's him no wrong. (Benjamin Franklin)
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech which is the right of every man as far as by it he does not hurt or control the right of another and this is the only check it ought to suffer and the only bounds it ought to know.... Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech, a thing terrible to traitors. View quote
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Necessity knows no law I know some attorneys of the same. View quote
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...It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins... View quote
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Timothy was so learned he could name a horse in 9 languages, and bought a cow to ride on. View quote
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