"Would you live with ease, Do what you……" — Benjamin Franklin
"Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please."
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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 Ease Quotes
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one of 969 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
— Jane Austen
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A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
— Jane Austen
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
— Honore de Balzac
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A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is…
— Georges Bataille
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I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So…
— Ingrid Bergman
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I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't…
— David Bowie
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The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the…
— James Buchan
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I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of…
— Donald Cargill
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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
— Winston Churchill
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As you get older and ease your way into being a character actor you have to be comfortable with where…
— George Clooney
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Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.
— Chuck Close
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Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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