A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
O Lazy bones! Dost thou think God would have given thee arms and legs, if he had not design'd thou should'st use… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again; tho' he were my best Friend. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Quarrels never could last long, if on one side only lay the wrong. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it? — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect.… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I think opinions should be judged by their influences and effects; and if a man holds none that tend to make him… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Hereafter, if you should observe an occasion to give your officers and friends a little more praise than is their due, and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. if all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine… — benjamin franklin Copy Share Image
Thank God! we are in the full enjoyment of all these privileges. But can we be taught to prize them too much?… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations… — Benjamin Franklin 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
Those renowned generals [Alexander and Caesar] received more faithful service, and performed greater actions by means of the love their soldiers bore… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend. — Benjamin Franklin 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
If you ride a horse, sit close and tight, if you ride a man, sit easy and light. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The good will of the governed will be starved if not fed by the good deeds of the governors. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I've striven my whole life for humility, but if I'd ever achieved it, I'd probably be pretty damn proud of that. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I am what I am and that's all that I am and if I'm supposed to be somebody else, why do I… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Let every one ascertain his special business and calling, and then stick to it if he wants to be successful. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If anyone should doubt whether the electrical matter passes through the substance of bodies, or only over along their surfaces, a shock… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy - "A republic," replied the Doctor,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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