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Persons Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.
- 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…
- Do you sincerely declare that you love mankind in general, of what profession or religion soever? Do you think any person ought to be harmed…
- If you want something done, ask a busy person.
- I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations of adult persons;…
- History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public; the advantage of a religious…
- Let each new year find you a better person.
- As to the kindness you mention, I wish I could have been of more service to you than I have been, but if I had,…
- No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.
- Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
- The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.
- All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all, the person who…
- there was great difference between persons and, discretion did not always accompany years nor was youth always with out it
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- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
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- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong