"The height of foolishness is to discard an……" — Benjamin Franklin
"The height of foolishness is to discard an opportunity without full investigation"
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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 Discard Quotes
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one of 126 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature…
— Larry Bird
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We must carefully examine change so that we are able to discard those aspects of change which would be detrimental…
— Alex Campbell
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He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is…
— Chanakya
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I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and…
— Leonard Cohen
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But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain…
— Laozi
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It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the…
— Werner Heisenberg
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Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift;…
— J. Reuben Clark
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The more experiences and experiments accumulate in the exploration of nature, the more precarious the theories become. But it is…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.
— Richard Avedon
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Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness…
— Bruce Lee
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To become a lawyer you must discard your ethics and become an eloquent devil that views justice as god.
— Unknown Author
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We are better people than what these laws represent, and it is time to discard them into the ash heap…
— John E. Jones III
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