"Moses lifting up his wand, and dividing the……" — Benjamin Franklin
"Moses lifting up his wand, and dividing the Red Sea, and Pharaoh in his chariot overwhelmed with the waters. This motto: "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.""
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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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As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and…
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I remember one time that I was filming a scene in whych my character rides through Troy on a chariot.…
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I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the…
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Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care…
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The axle of the wheels of the chariot of Providence is Infinite Love, and Gracious Wisdom is the perpetual charioteer.
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In a chariot of light from the region of the day, the Goddess of Liberty came. She brought in her…
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I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot.
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The demons are innumerable, arrive at the most inappropriate times and create panic and terror... but I have learned that…
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Just as a chariot is verbalized, in dependence on collections of parts, so conventionally a sentient being, is set up…
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Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that…
— George Canning
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Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.
— Thomas Brooks
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Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds, unfold!…
— William Blake
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