"To be thrown upon one's own resources is……" — Benjamin Franklin
"To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previosly unsusceptible."
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1,166 Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
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Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.
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