"Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great…" — Benjamin Franklin
"Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones."
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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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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
— Richard Armour
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It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.
— Teresa of Avila
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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing…
— Teresa of Avila
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I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults.…
— Teresa of Avila
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If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always…
— Richard Bach
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There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that…
— James Truslow Adams
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There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
— Samuel Beckett
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
— Samuel Beckett
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in…
— Kristen Bell
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What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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