Benjamin Franklin Quotes - Page 17

• Industry pays debts, while despair increases them.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Business, Despair, Debt

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.2, Nayika Publishing

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• Do not fear mistakes.

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  Fear, Mistake, Politician

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• 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.

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  Loss, Effort, Useless

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

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• He that can have patience can have what he will.

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  Sports, Patience, Determination

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive

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  Giving, Joy, Pleasure

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.17, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

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  Encouraging, Education, Money

  Jack Vincent, Benjamin Franklin (2010). “Benjamin Franklin's the Way to Wealth”, p.91, The Way to Wealth

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• He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

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  Education, Horse, Ignorance

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.30, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

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  Perseverance, Yield, Perserverance

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.

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  Mom, Daughter, Mother

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

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  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1819). “The Posthumous and Other Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.290

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• One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

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  Love, Anniversary, Thank You

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.

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  Change, Education, Religion

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• An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

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  Marriage, Mom, Daughter

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.40, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Better slip with foot than tongue.

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  Wisdom, Feet, Tongue

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.

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  Chains, Frugal, Your Freedom

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.291, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.

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  Life, Sloth, Overcoming

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• It is better to take many injuries than to give one.

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  Giving, Injury, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• The way to be safe is never to be secure.

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  Change, Safety, Doubt

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.272, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

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  Men, Errors, Wish

  Benjamin Franklin (2016). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.21, First Avenue Editions

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• As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

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  Courage, Integrity, Silence

  Benjamin Franklin (1928). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Almanacks of 1733, 1749, 1756, 1757, 1758, First Written Under the Name of Richard Saunders”

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• There's small Revenge in Words, but Words may be greatly revenged

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  Revenge, May

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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

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  Funny, God, Honesty

  Poor Richard's Almanack, Dec. 1733

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• We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government.

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  Pride, Government, Folly

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• If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.

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  Friendship, Keeping Secrets, Enemy

  "The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac".

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• Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !

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  Girl, Ruins, Abstinence

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