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Long Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to the…
- You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.
- Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old…
- I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome,…
- I have lived a long time, sir, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth - that God governs…
- But they have two other Rights; those of sitting when they please, and as long as they please, in which methinks they have the advantage…
- That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally…
- Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.
- A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.
- I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.
- Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long after they begin to parley.
- You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on.
- God bless the King, and grant him long to Reign.
- Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
- For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects,…
- All would live long, but none would be old.
- I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs…
- In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long…
- If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.
- I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making…
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