"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander……" — Benjamin Franklin
"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of."
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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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Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what…
— Marcus Aurelius
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One today is worth two tomorrows. Lost time is never found again. Time is money. Dost thou love life? Then…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity, Peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify, Weary bodies refresh and mollify.
— Ovid
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If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure…
— William Shakespeare
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Dost thou understand me, sinful soul? He wrestled with justice, that thou mightest have rest; He wept and mourned, that…
— John Bunyan
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Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.
— William Penn
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The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy.
— William Blake
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Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou…
— Walter Raleigh
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Alone thou goest forth, O Lord, in sacrifice to die; is this thy sorrow naught to us who pass unheeding…
— Peter Abelard
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Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.
— Alexander Pope
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Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As mans ingratitude Thy tooth is not so keen, Because…
— William Shakespeare
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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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