"Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the……" — Benjamin Franklin
"Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough."
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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 Grave Quotes
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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the…
— Francis Bacon
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or…
— Abigail Adams
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Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
— Henry Adams
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
— Samuel Beckett
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where…
— Marek Belka
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Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to…
— Berkeley Breathed
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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
— Thomas Browne
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Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.
— Georg Buchner
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it…
— Pearl S. Buck
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