"Despair ruins some, presumption many." — Benjamin Franklin
"Despair ruins some, presumption many."
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Benjamin Franklin
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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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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
— Karen Armstrong
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So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the…
— Antonin Artaud
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Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I…
— Joseph Barbera
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Action is the antidote to despair.
— Joan Baez
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To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
— Honore de Balzac
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Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to…
— Georges Bataille
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It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than…
— Charles Baudelaire
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We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less…
— Emmanuelle Beart
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I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
— Joseph Addison
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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
— Hector Berlioz
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But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
— Theodor Adorno
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