Eggs Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.” quote by Benjamin Franklin — Download Open image

“Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.”

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Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and…

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Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

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“Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world.”

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Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths.

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In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

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By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.

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I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it…

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How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of…

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Little leaks sink the ship.

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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

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“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavour, a better and happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it; as those who aim at perfect writing by imitating the engraved copies, their hand…

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The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively.

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