Benjamin Franklin Quotes

#1. To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

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#2. He that resolves to mend hereafter, resolves not to mend now.

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#3. The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

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#4. He that lives upon hope will die farting.

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#5. Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

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#6. They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

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#7. If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.

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#8. I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

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#9. You must always be prepared. Make sure to look at things from all angles. If you are not prepared you will fail.

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#10. Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature.

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#11. Fear to do ill, and you need fear else.

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#12. The used key is always bright.

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#13. Laws without morals are in vain.

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#14. Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterward.

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#15. Fish and visitors smell in three days.

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#16. He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.

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#17. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.

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#18. Reckless haste makes poor speed.

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#19. Keep out of the Sight of Feasts and Banquets as much as may be; for 'tis more difficult to refrain good Cheer, when it's present, than from the Desire of it when it is away; the like you may observe in the Objects of all the other Senses.

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#20. Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

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#21. Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

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#22. Tolerate no Uncleanliness in Body, Clothes, or Habitation.

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#23. Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly.

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#24. Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and oppressors, and a barrier against them. It produces excellent writers, and encourages men of fine genius.

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#25. Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

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#26. I wish it (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 Deity.

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#27. Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?

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#28. No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.

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#29. If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.

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#30. Marry above thy match and you will get a master.

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#31. Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

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#32. Today is Yesterday's Pupil.

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#33. Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?

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#34. If anyone should doubt whether the electrical matter passes through the substance of bodies, or only over along their surfaces, a shock from an electrified large glass jar, taken through his own body, will probably convince him.

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#35. When religion is good, it will take care of itself. When it is not able to take care of itself, and God does not see fit to take care of it, so that it has to appeal to the civil power for support, it is evidence to my mind that its cause is a bad one.

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#36. Love of country is the Mason's deed; world citizenship is his thought.

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#37. Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

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#38. He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.

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#39. E'er you remark another's sin, bid your own conscience look within.

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#40. Men should be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot;

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#41. Your best investment is to pour your purse into your head, and no one can take it away from you.

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#42. It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.

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#43. My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest; but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me right at the time, leaving the consequences with Providence.

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#44. Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.

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#45. When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to you, look on his mouth.

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#46. The Things which hurt, instruct.

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#47. Hope is an essential constituent of human life.

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#48. Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety.

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#49. In success be moderate.

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#50. A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts.

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#51. There are no ugly loves nor handsome prisons.

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#52. If you wou'd be reveng'd of your enemy, govern your self

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#53. Hear not ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy.

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#54. On second thought, it's a good thing love is blind otherwise it would see too much.

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#55. He who is in love with himself has no rivals.

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#56. A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society?

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#57. Pen, wax and parchment govern the world.

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#58. Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money.

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#59. There is nothing wrong with retirement as long as one doesn't allow it to interfere with one's work.

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#60. God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

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#61. Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

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#62. It is the man and woman united that makes the complete human being. Separate she lacks his force of body and strength of reason; he her softness, sensibility and acute discernment. Together they are most likely to succeed in the world.

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#63. Remember that credit is money.

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#64. We are all born without knowledge, but curious. With curiosity we should be able to learn as much as possible. With curiosity, it has to take a lot of work to remain ignorant.

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#65. There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies.

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#66. Hunger is the best pickle.

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#67. Great spenders are bad lenders.

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#68. If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor.

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#69. If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?

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#70. When men are employed they are best contented.

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#71. What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

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#72. Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery.

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#73. Speak and speed: the close mouth catches no flies.

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#74. If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both.

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#75. Never confuse Motion with Action.

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#76. If you give up your freedom for safety, you don't deserve either one.

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#77. Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform.

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#78. If you have a bald head don't walk out in the sun because you will get burned.

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#79. Why do tomorrow what you can do today?

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#80. He is no clown that drives the plow, but he that doth clownish things.

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#81. Cheese and salt meat, should be sparingly eat.

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#82. Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

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#83. Quarrels never could last long, if on one side only lay the wrong.

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#84. Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues

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#85. Security without liberty is called prison.

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#86. Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.

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#87. All would live long, but none would be old.

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#88. to come on hereafter, was what

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#89. An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.

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#90. I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead.

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#91. Reckless youth makes rueful age.

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#92. Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.

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#93. If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

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#94. There is ample time to sleep; after death.

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#95. By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.

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#96. A policy of life insurance is the cheapest and safest mode of making a certain provision for one's family.

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#97. This was, therefore, the first house I was in, or slept in, in Philadelphia.

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#98. The good or ill hap of a good or ill life, is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife.

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#99. When the well is dry, people know the worth of water. [so appreciate what you have while you have it]

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#100. But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength.

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