"If passion drives you, let reason hold the…" — Benjamin Franklin
"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins."
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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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Nothing can be done except little by little.
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Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in…
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The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is…
— Allan Bloom
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Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
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The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first…
— H. Rap Brown
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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
— Winston Churchill
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I like a man who grins when he fights.
— Winston Churchill
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The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
— John Ciardi
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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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I believe that coaches and athletes should realize that the athletic department field, court or diamond can be made an…
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I, like almost all chemists I know, was also attracted by the smells and bangs that endowed chemistry with that…
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Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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