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Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
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"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."
Benjamin Franklin"Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one."
Benjamin Franklin"Beauty and folly are old companions."
Benjamin Franklin"How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them."
Benjamin Franklin"Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75."
Benjamin Franklin"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
Benjamin Franklin"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other."
Benjamin Franklin"Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out."
Benjamin Franklin"The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason."
Benjamin Franklin"In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it."
Benjamin Franklin"To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly."
Benjamin Franklin"Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship."
Benjamin Franklin"Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones."
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."
Benjamin Franklin"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing."
Benjamin Franklin"Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God."
Benjamin Franklin"It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it."
Benjamin Franklin"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."
Benjamin Franklin"Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed."
Benjamin Franklin"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."
Benjamin Franklin"Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants."
Benjamin Franklin"The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself."
Benjamin Franklin"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."
Benjamin Franklin"He that lives upon hope will die fasting."
Benjamin Franklin"A place for everything, everything in its place."
Benjamin Franklin"One today is worth two tomorrows."
Benjamin Franklin"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
Benjamin Franklin"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance."
Benjamin Franklin"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
Benjamin Franklin"Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn."
Benjamin Franklin"If you would be loved, love, and be loveable."
Benjamin Franklin"Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness."
Benjamin Franklin"Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage."
Benjamin Franklin"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."
Benjamin Franklin"Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it."
Benjamin Franklin"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money."
Benjamin Franklin"A penny saved is a penny earned."
Benjamin Franklin"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."
Benjamin Franklin"Well done is better than well said."
Benjamin Franklin"He that can have patience can have what he will."
Benjamin Franklin"There was never a good war, or a bad peace."
Benjamin Franklin"He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees."
Benjamin Franklin"Even peace may be purchased at too high a price."
Benjamin Franklin"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man."
Benjamin Franklin"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."
Benjamin Franklin"Time is money."
Benjamin Franklin"Lost time is never found again."
Benjamin Franklin"You may delay, but time will not."
Benjamin Franklin"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."
Benjamin Franklin"Half a truth is often a great lie."
Benjamin Franklin"Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later."
Benjamin Franklin"All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones."
Benjamin Franklin"There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money."
Benjamin Franklin"When in doubt, don't."
Benjamin Franklin"The doors of wisdom are never shut."
Benjamin Franklin"Honesty is the best policy."
Benjamin Franklin"It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man."
Benjamin Franklin"Genius without education is like silver in the mine."
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