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Neighbor Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the…
- There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their…
- Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to…
- Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in…
- Don't throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.
- Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
More Neighbor Quotes
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can… — Chinua Achebe
- How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. — Marcus Aurelius
- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? — Jane Austen
- The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors. — Francis Bacon
- People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors. — Francis Bacon
- Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement. — George Bancroft
- Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant. — George Ade
- Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one. — Nikolai Berdyaev
- There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural… — Alfred Adler
- We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is… — Wendell Berry
- Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors. — Josh Billings