Benjamin Franklin Quotes - Page 19

• Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Bible

  Mark Skousen, Benjamin Franklin (2005). “The Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.124, Regnery Publishing

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• Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Tomorrow Never Comes, Faults

  Benjamin Franklin (1945). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”

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• 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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• Thou can'st not joke an enemy into a friend,
  but thou may'st a friend into an enemy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Enemy, May, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.50, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sea, Laziness, Virtue

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Visitors, Busy

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.283, Oxford University Press, USA

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• A man in a passion, rides a mad horse.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Wisdom, Horse

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.73, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Spare when young, and spend when old.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Young, Spares

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.35, Nayika Publishing

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• Necessity never made a good bargain.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, 4th Of July, Honor

  Poor Richard's Almanack, Apr. 1735

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• If your head is made of wax, don't walk in the sun

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Sun, Made

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• None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Errors, Judging

  Poor Richard's Almanack, Nov. 1738

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• A penny saved is twopence dear; A pin a day 's a groat a year.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Years, Pennies, Pins

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• Applause waits on success.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Success, Congratulations, Reality

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• If you'd lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Humorous, Visitors

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• Venison and venery defeated me.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Defeated, Venison

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• An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Honest, Praise

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.26, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• When passion rules, she never rules wisely.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Passion

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• Display is as false as it is costly.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Display

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• Nature performs the cure, the physician takes the fee.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Healing, Physicians, Cures

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• Masonic labor is purely a labor of love. He who seeks to draw Masonic wages in gold and silver will be disappointed. The wages of a Mason are in the dealings with one another; sympathy begets sympathy, kindness begets kindness, helpfulness begets helpfulness, and these are the wages of a Mason.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Kindness, Gold, Wages

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• Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Anniversary, Marriage, Men

  "The Completed Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin".

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• Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself

  Benjamin Franklin

  Reading, Amusement

  Benjamin Franklin (2018). “The Art of Virtue: Ben Franklin's Formula for Successful Living”, p.6, Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

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• There is no little enemy

  Benjamin Franklin

  Enemy, Littles

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.388

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• The proof of gold is fire.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Adversity, Fire, Gold

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• Thank God! we are in the full enjoyment of all these privileges. But can we be taught to prize them too much? or how can we prize them equal to their value, if we do not know their intrinsic worth, and that they are not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Law, Voting

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin, William Duane (1834). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.440

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