Benjamin Franklin Quotes

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Benjamin Franklin

Profession : Politician

Birth : January 17, 1706

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Benjamin Franklin

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Benjamin Franklin

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet.

Benjamin Franklin

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.

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For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

Benjamin Franklin

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

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We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

Benjamin Franklin

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Benjamin Franklin

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Benjamin Franklin

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

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Lost time is never found again.

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

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Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

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Energy and persistence conquer all things.

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Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

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Half a truth is often a great lie.

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You may delay, but time will not.

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In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

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He that can have patience can have what he will.

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