"I know not which lives more unnatural lives,……" — Benjamin Franklin
"I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives."
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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 Commanding Quotes
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one of 92 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the…
— Daniel Boone
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There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune on his army: By commanding the army to advance…
— Sun Tzu
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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.
— Mark Helprin
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Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their…
— Blaise Pascal
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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that…
— Lysander Spooner
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[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can…
— John Herschel
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The relationship between officers and men should in no sense be that of superior and inferior, nor that of master…
— John A. Lejeune
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Too many believe that love is a condition, a feeling that involves 100 percent of the heart, something that happens…
— Lynn G. Robbins
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He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back
— A. A. Gill
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