"If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up…" — Benjamin Franklin
"If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear."
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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 Beggary Quotes
This quote is filed under Beggary Quotes,
one of 14 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.
— William Shakespeare
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There's beggary in love that can be reckoned
— William Shakespeare
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Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And…
— William Shakespeare
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O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or…
— John Milton
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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are…
— Simone Weil
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But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they…
— David Hume
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CLEOPATRA: If it be love indeed, tell me how much. ANTONY: There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned.…
— William Shakespeare
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Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at…
— Joseph Addison
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Idleness is the key of beggary.
— Charles Spurgeon
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O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or…
— John Milton
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Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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