Benjamin Franklin Quotes - Page 23

• When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Years, Clothes, Pockets

  Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1856). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.90

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• A light purse is a heavy curse.

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  Light, Purses, Heavy

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

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• Getting it done is my reward.

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  Done, Rewards, Time Management

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• He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go.

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  Two, Doe, Hares

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.22, Nayika Publishing

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

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  Savages, Our Society, Bears

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• Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

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  Wisdom, Men, Bags

  Benjamin Franklin (1839). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.11

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• What I am to be, I am now becoming.

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  Becoming

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• Great talkers are little doers.

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  Littles, Doers, Talkers

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• Hold your Council before Dinner; the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting.

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  Hate, Food, Thinking

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• The best is the cheapest.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Quality

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• There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

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  Peace, War, 4th Of July

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• A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was lost; for want of a horse, the battle was lost; for want of the battle, the war was lost.

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  Time, Horse, War

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• One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.

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  Men, Body, May

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.65, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise.

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  Weather

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

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• Beware the hobby that eats.

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  Food, Liberty, Hobbies

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• Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor; but then the trade must be worked at and the calling followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes. If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while idleness and neglect increase them.

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  Life, Pain, Office

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• [E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution has a Voice in Elections, and a share in the Government of the Country.

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  Country, Men, Land

  Benjamin Franklin (1840). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.131

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• I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it is not given our fallen nature to understand.

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  Flower, Writing, Angel

  "The American Common-place Book of Prose: A Collection of Eloquent and Interesting Extracts from the Writings of American Authors".

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• Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one.

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  May, Faults, Suspicion

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.74, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Cunning proceeds from want of capacity.

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  Capacity, Cunning

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.60, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others

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  Bears, Breeding, Ill

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.282, Oxford University Press, USA

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• History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public; the advantage of a religious character among private persons; the mischiefs of superstition, and the excellency of the Christian religion above all others, ancient or modern.

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  Christian, Education, Religious

  Benjamin Franklin (1844). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.573

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• A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law

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  Country, Men, Color

  Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running.

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  Wise, Running, Wisdom

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.41, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations of adult persons; bad habits and vices of the mind being, like diseases of the body, more easily prevented than cured. I think moreover, that talents for the education of youth are the gift of God; and that he on whom they are bestowed, whenever a way is opened for use of them, is as strongly called as if he heard a voice from heaven.

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  Education, Thinking, Voice

  Benjamin Franklin (1838). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Ed., and Many Letters Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.48

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