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From Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.
- I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking.
- You cannot always run from a weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish.
- And as to the Cares, they are chiefly what attend the bringing up of Children; and I would ask any Man who has experienced it,…
- [T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away…
- Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant…
- The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money…
- I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely…
- The colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away from the colonies…
- And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from…
- Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved,…
- Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.
- If you want to keep a secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.
- What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . .…
- I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil.
- Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.
- The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends
- In every animal that walks upright, the deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows…
- A man separated from his reflective belt is no man at all.
- If anyone should doubt whether the electrical matter passes through the substance of bodies, or only over along their surfaces, a shock from an electrified…
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