Benjamin Franklin Quotes - Page 34

• God heals, and the doctor takes the fees. Energy and persistence conquer all things. He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! Oh, it's easier to keep Holidays than Commandments. Well done is better than well said.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Holiday, Persistence, Doctors

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• There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sleep, Time To Sleep, Plenty

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• Death is a fisherman, the world we see His fish-pond is, and we the fishes be; His net some general sickness; howe'er he Is not so kind as other fishers be; For if they take one of the smaller fry, They throw him in again, he shall not die: But death is sure to kill all he can get, And all is fish with him that comes to net.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Death, World, Ponds

  Benjamin Franklin, “Death Is A Fisherman”

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• Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Deception, Thee, Deceived

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• Men differ daily about things which are subject to sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible.

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  Men, Church, Invisible

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

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• Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and the moon to stand still - and they obeyed.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Moon, America, Sun

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• And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Liberty, Thieves

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• When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

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  Gratitude, Befriending, Remember

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.27, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

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  Motivation, Two, Liberty

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.253

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• Tolerate no Uncleanliness in Body, Clothes, or Habitation.

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  Clothes, Body, Tolerate

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1850). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Published Verbatim from the Original Manuscript, by His Grandson, William Temple Franklin”, p.76

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• It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices and private interests: for regulating commerce an assembly of great men is the greatest fool on earth

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  Wisdom, Passion, Men

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• Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Lying, Animal, Bugs

  Letter to Georgiana Shipley, 26 Sept. 1772.

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• I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue. Wise and good men are in my opinion, the strength of the state; more so than riches or arms.

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  Wise, Thinking, Men

  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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• Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.

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  Enemy, Gains, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (1849). “Poor Richard's almanac for 1850-52”, p.35

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• You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

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  Marriage, Humorous, Wife

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.39, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money

  Benjamin Franklin

  Views, Interesting, Needs

  George Walker, Benjamin Franklin, William Stopford Kenny (1841). “The chess player: by George Walker; to which are added the three games played at one and the same time by Philidor; sixty openings, mates and situations, by W. S. Kenny, with remarks, anecdotes, &c. &c., and an explanation of the round chess board”, p.7

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• What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

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  Children, Two, Vices

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.251

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• Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Income, Uniforms, Taxes

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• He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.

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  Business, Night, Laziness

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.286, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• I think opinions should be judged by their influences and effects; and if a man holds none that tend to make him less virtuous or more vicious, it may be concluded that he holds none that are dangerous, which I hope is the case with me.

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  Thinking, Men, May

  Benjamin Franklin (2006). “The Portable Benjamin Franklin”, p.366, Penguin

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• Taxes are indeed very heavy -
  We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness.
  Three times as much by our Pride.
  And four times as much by our Folly.

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  Pride, Three, Taxation

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.248

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• I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.

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  Happiness, Satisfaction, Faults

  Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1848). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Containing the Autobiography, with Notes and a Continuation”, p.112

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• He that drinks fast, pays slow.

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  Drinking, Beer, Alcohol

  1733 Poor Richard's Almanack, Aug.

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• The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Witty, Stars

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• To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Poison, Proud, Virtue

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.263, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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