"You will observe with concern how long a……" — Benjamin Franklin
"You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on."
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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 Concern Quotes
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It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance,…
— David Bailey
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My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could…
— Javier Bardem
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I think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to…
— Wendell Berry
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I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.
— Jeff Bingaman
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Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
— Corrie Ten Boom
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What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.
— Aeschylus
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What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because, if Europe comes apart, the E.U. comes apart, then you're going…
— Michael Bloomberg
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It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what…
— Niels Bohr
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You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality.…
— Bono
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Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with…
— George W. Bush
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