"After crosses and losses men grow humbler and…" — Benjamin Franklin
"After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser."
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1,166 Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin has 1,166 quotes on this site.
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
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Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.
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Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we…
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Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of…
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[E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution…
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It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped
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I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a…
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Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for…
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Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.
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Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. One today is…
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It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be…
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It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.
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More Crosses Quotes
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Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of…
— Benigno Aquino III
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In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials,…
— Diane Ackerman
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I think of being an actor as kind of a young man's gig. It's emasculating, in a way, people messing…
— Kevin Bacon
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If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared…
— William Barclay
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We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead…
— Bernard Baruch
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When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.
— Frederic Bastiat
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The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.
— Alfred Adler
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Presumptuous for me to say, but at least - at a minimum - I've been able to influence the direction…
— Joe Biden
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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
— Buffalo Bill
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