We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate. — 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
Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their own poverty. — 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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