Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Loss

• Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Loss, Self Improvement, Drink

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.126, Applewood Books

• It is a strange anomaly that men could be careful to insure their houses, their ships, their merchandise, and yet neglect to insure their lives - surely the most important of all to their families, and more subject to loss.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Loss, Men, House

• After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Wisdom, Humility

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.6, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Loss, Secret, Purpose

  Benjamin Franklin “Poor Richard Day by Day”, Lulu.com

• In New England they once thought blackbirds useless, and mischievous to the corn. They made efforts to destroy them. The consequence was, the blackbirds were diminished; but a kind of worm, which devoured their grass, and which the blackbirds used to feed on, increased prodigiously; then, finding their loss in grass much greater than their saving in corn, they wished again for their blackbirds.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Loss, Effort, Useless

  Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

• Bad gains are true losses.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Loss, Gains

  Benjamin Franklin (2006). “Wisdom and Wit from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.76, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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