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Best Us Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowledgment of our services. But let us persevere through abuse…
- The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.
- Beer is God's way of telling us that he loves us and wants us to be happy.
- Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge
- Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
- All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the…
- It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
- Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
- We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and…
- While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
- When nature gave us tears, She gave us leave to weep.
- Critics are our friends, they show us our faults.
- Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves…
- Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
- We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness…
- Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay,…
- Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
- Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong