Benjamin Franklin quotes - page 27

Opportunity is the great Bawd. (Benjamin Franklin)
Content is the philosopher's stone, that turns all it touches into gold. View quote
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Enjoy the present hour, be mindful of the past And neither fear nor wish the Approaches of the last. Learn of the skilful He that teaches himself, hath a fool for his master. View quote
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Trouble knocked on the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away. View quote
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The morning hour has gold in its mouth. View quote
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The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt. View quote
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He that is rich need not live sparingly, and he that can live sparingly need not be rich. View quote
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The King's cheese is half wasted in parings But no matter, 'tis made of the people's milk. View quote
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Since I cannot govern my own tongue, tho' within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongues of others. View quote
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You cannot pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns. View quote
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Quarrels never could last long, If on one side only lay the wrong. (Benjamin Franklin)
If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world. View quote
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A penny saved is twopence dear A pin a day 's a groat a year. View quote
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I wish Christianity were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy-day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the. View quote
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There is no little enemy. View quote
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Christianity commands us to pass by injuries policy, to let them pass by us. View quote
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A temperate Diet frees from Diseases such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion. View quote
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Never spare the Parson's wine, nor Baker's Pudding. View quote
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As sore places meet most rubs, proud folks meet most affronts. View quote
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If you would persuade, speak of interest, not reason. View quote
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One Mend-fault is worth two Findfaults, but one Findfault is better than two Makefaults. (Benjamin Franklin)
Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man. View quote
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Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting. View quote
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When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and canceling them out, one against the other, I take the course indicated by what remains. View quote
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To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible. View quote
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