"I was surprised to find myself so much……" — Benjamin Franklin
"I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish."
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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 Diminish Quotes
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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
— Bernard Berenson
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A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to…
— Fanny Burney
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If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the…
— William J. Clinton
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Envying another's beauty will diminish your own. But when you praise beauty in others your own beauty deepens.
— Daisaku Ikeda
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Once our minds are 'tattooed' with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.
— John C. Maxwell
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These fiery trials are designed to make you stronger, but they have the potential to diminish or even destroy your…
— Neil L. Andersen
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Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred…
— Herbert Spencer
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Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.
— Mark Twain
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Convince your enemy that he will gain very little by attacking you; this will diminish his enthusiasm
— Sun Tzu
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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to…
— Maya Angelou
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One must not be mean with affections; what is spent of the funds is renewed in the spending itself. Left…
— Sigmund Freud
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Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he…
— William E. Gladstone
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