"Those have a short Lent who owe money…" — Benjamin Franklin
"Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter."
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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 Easter Quotes
This quote is filed under Easter Quotes,
one of 372 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
— Saint Augustine
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If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared…
— William Barclay
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Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year…
— Annie Besant
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But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one…
— Bono
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I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the…
— Julie Burchill
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Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like…
— Nicolas Cage
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The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole…
— Deepak Chopra
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In every grave on earth's green sward is a tiny seed of the resurrection life of Jesus Christ, and that…
— Unknown Author
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The joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world. Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice.…
— Henry Knox Sherrill
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Nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to Thy cross I cling
— Augustus Toplady
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