The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. — Benjamin Franklin Love Copy Share Image
Visit your Aunt, but not every Day; and call at your Brother's, but not every night. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.” — Benjamin Franklin Death Copy Share Image
A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon. — Benjamin Franklin Change Copy Share Image
I believe ... that the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life, respecting its conduct… — Benjamin Franklin American founding fathers Copy Share Image
On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“reform of the postal system; but his fame as a statesman rests chiefly on his services in connection with the relations of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Eat and drink such an exact Quantity as the Constitution of thy Body allows of, in reference to the Services of the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Your Business is to shine; therefore you must by all means prevent the shining of others, for their Brightness may make yours… — Benjamin Franklin Business Copy Share Image
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With regard to future bliss, I cannot help imagining that multitudes of the zealously orthodox of different sects, who at the last… — Benjamin Franklin Happiness Copy Share Image
“In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride. Disguise it, struggle with it,… — Benjamin Franklin Pride Copy Share Image
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My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that,… — Benjamin Franklin Book Copy Share Image
“I never doubted, for instance, the existence of the Deity; that he made the world, and governed it by his providence; that… — Benjamin Franklin Doing good Copy Share Image
You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expressions, nor show too much of the pleasure… — Benjamin Franklin Adversaries Copy Share Image
“I balanc'd some time between principle and inclination, till I recollected that, when the fish were opened, I saw smaller fish taken… — Benjamin Franklin Fish Copy Share Image
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