“A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.” — Benjamin Franklin Deeds Copy Share Image
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. — Benjamin Franklin Enemies Copy Share Image
“Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.” — Benjamin Franklin Desire Copy Share Image
Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master. — Benjamin Franklin Decision Copy Share Image
“I am captivated more by dreams of the future then history of the past.” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing. — Benjamin Franklin Acting Copy Share Image
If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. — 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
The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that… — Benjamin Franklin Life Copy Share Image
We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport. — Benjamin Franklin Absolutes Copy Share Image
It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever… — Benjamin Franklin Atheism Copy Share Image
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and… — Benjamin Franklin Ambition Copy Share Image
He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Mankind are very odd creatures: one half censure what they practice, the other half practice what they censure; the rest always say… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expression, nor show too much pleasure ; but… — Benjamin Franklin Communication Copy Share Image
The colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away… — Benjamin Franklin Colonists Copy Share Image
If you do not exclude them, in less than 200 years our descendants will be working in the fields to furnish them… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as… — Benjamin Franklin Christian patriotic Copy Share Image
And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand… — Benjamin Franklin Air power Copy Share Image
It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into… — Benjamin Franklin Bereavement Copy Share Image
If the new Universal History were also read, it would give a connected idea of human affairs, so far as it goes,… — Benjamin Franklin Affair Copy Share Image
Those renowned generals [Alexander and Caesar] received more faithful service, and performed greater actions by means of the love their soldiers bore… — Benjamin Franklin Action Copy Share Image
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