"Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him…" — Benjamin Franklin
"Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running."
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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 Blinds Quotes
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one of 131 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
— John Perry Barlow
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Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on…
— Roseanne Barr
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Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
— Albert Camus
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Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long…
— Yoshida Kenko
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Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Your honor blinds you, Tempus, to what's right and wrong these days.
— Janet Morris
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The devil does not bring sinners to hell with their eyes open: he first blinds them with the malice of…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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Not only is science corrosive to religion, but religion is corrosive to science. It teaches people to be satisfied with…
— Richard Dawkins
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Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!
— H. Rider Haggard
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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less…
— William Hazlitt
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Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?
— William Dean Howells
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see…
— William Faulkner
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