Benjamin Franklin Quotes

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Benjamin Franklin

Profession : Politician

Birth : January 17, 1706

Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

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Well done is better than well said.

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One today is worth two tomorrows.

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There never was a good knife made of bad steel.

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By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

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If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

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A penny saved is a penny earned.

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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

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There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

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Time is money.

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Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

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He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

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In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

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The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

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How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

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In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

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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 world.

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Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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