"Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure……" — Benjamin Franklin
"Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas."
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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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I want to define success by redefining it. For me it isn't that solely mythical definition - glamour, allure, power…
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I now never make the preparations for penetrating into some small province of nature hitherto undiscovered without breathing a prayer…
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I wasn't running toward the theater but running away from the sporting goods store. Of course now that I'm selling…
— Paul Newman
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I've never wanted to grow up too fast. I wanted to wear a sports bra until I was 22! ...…
— Emma Watson
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I was up for Michael Corleone in 'The Godfather,' but, as I was only 10 at the time, I think…
— Eric Stoltz
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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
— Socrates
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Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature:…
— John Calvin
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The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not televison love, with its glare and hollow and…
— Deb Caletti
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The daemonic-divine object may appear to the mind an object of horror and dread, but at the same time it…
— Rudolf Otto
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For most of us, when our 'dreams' - I use the word with reservations - came true, and marriage and…
— Mariella Frostrup
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When the going gets tough, the prospect of delegating half your responsibilities to a willing volunteer, either to play a…
— Mariella Frostrup
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On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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