"Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to…" — Benjamin Franklin
"Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure."
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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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Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of…
— Benigno Aquino III
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We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ.
— Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
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There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking…
— Alfred Adler
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For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for…
— Richard Branson
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Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution.…
— Akhenaton
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How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the…
— Robert Browning
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The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind…
— Gabriel Byrne
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War is a barbaric tool of the war profiteers and Empires who employ them. War pits young people from the…
— Cindy Sheehan
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Bestow rewards without respect to customary practice; publish orders without respect to precedent. Thus you may employ the entire army…
— Sun Tzu
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Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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This world will slam doors in your face at every opportunity. Be willing to employ a foot when necessary.
— Wes Fesler
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