"Be studious in your profession, and you will……" — Benjamin Franklin
"Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich."
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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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Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on…
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Americans, both politicians and voters, may have become corrupted by big government beyond redemption. A virtuous government requires a virtuous…
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I had to be frugal, thoughtful, resourceful. I didn't have anyone to tell me, 'You can't.' When you're young, you…
— Sandra Lee
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And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs
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You have to be ready for hard work and frugal spending to get the idea off the ground.
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It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of…
— George Eliot
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I drive a tiny Toyota iQ. I'm quite frugal and often cut my own hair.
— Carol Vorderman
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There is no English equivalent for the French word flâneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flâneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but…
— Cornelia Otis Skinner
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Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Rather than ennobling the public mind and cementing the social fabric, applied science speedily became the chief weapon of a…
— Russell Kirk
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How simple and frugal a thing is happiness.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
— Xunzi
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