"Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time……" — Benjamin Franklin
"Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good."
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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 Discarded Quotes
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There are five known gyres spinning around in our world's oceans. A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents…
— Brandon Boyd
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Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being…
— Jarvis Cocker
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Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed.…
— Thomas A. Edison
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Un-thread the rude eye of rebellion, and welcome home again discarded faith.
— William Shakespeare
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I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless.…
— Carolyn Wells
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A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled; a…
— James Bryant Conant
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[Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best…
— Carl Sagan
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For a prayer oriented religion the concept of a personal God is needed - to relate to. For meditation-oriented religions…
— Rajneesh
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The genetic theory of homosexuality has been generally discarded today. . . . Despite the interest in possible hormone mechanisms…
— William H. Masters
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I am convinced that an important stage of human thought will have been reached when the physiological and the psychological,…
— Ivan Pavlov
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Reason is not one tool of thought among many, it is the entire toolbox. To advocate that reason be discarded…
— George H. Smith
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Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said…
— Thomas Nagel
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