"Love and lordship hate companions" — Benjamin Franklin
"Love and lordship hate companions"
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Benjamin Franklin
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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 Companions Quotes
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one of 304 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
— Francis Bacon
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Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she…
— Francis Beaumont
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship…
— Joseph Addison
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There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I…
— Buffalo Bill
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People always joke that 'dog' spells 'god' backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down…
— Linda Blair
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Much certainly of the happiness and purity of our lives depends on our making a wise choice of our companions…
— Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury
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War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.
— Benjamin Tucker
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In everything that moves through the universe, I see my own body, and in everything that governs the universe, my…
— Zhang Zai
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When old companions, old lusts, and sins crowd in upon you, and when you feel that you are ready to…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.
— Dean Koontz
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let…
— Henry David Thoreau
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