"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
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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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More Bad Ass Quotes
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one of 530 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
— Aristotle
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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it…
— Lance Armstrong
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A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness…
— Margaret Atwood
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
— Honore de Balzac
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The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
— Roseanne Barr
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If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us…
— Joey Adams
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Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
— John Barrymore
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't…
— Bernard Baruch
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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
— Scott Adams
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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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