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One Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of them; the Laws protect them…
- Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave…
- It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.
- Among the numerous luxuries of the table...coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and the pleasing flow…
- I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a…
- One today is worth two tomorrows. Lost time is never found again. Time is money. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for…
- Take one thing with another, and the world is a pretty good sort of a world, and it is our duty to make the best…
- So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry…
- Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old…
- To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must…
- When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to…
- Religion I found to be without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, serves principally to divide us and make us unfriendly to one…
- What one relishes, nourishes.
- Courteous Reader, Astrology is one of the most ancient Sciences, held in high esteem of old, by the Wise and the Great. Formerly, no Prince…
- The apostle Paul very seriously advised Timothy to put some wine in his water for health's sake, but not one of the apostles nor any…
- The one who fails to prepare is preparing to fail.
- The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and…
- If by the liberty of the press were understood merely the liberty of discussing the propriety of public measures and political opinions, let us have…
- 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…
- He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go.
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