Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing."
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"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing."
Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanack
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"Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five."
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"The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read."
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"If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed."
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"Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore."
Benjamin Franklin The Way to Wealth
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"Be not sick too late, nor well too soon"
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"If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles."
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"Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."
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"“Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.”"
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"Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes"
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"Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one."
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"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."
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"Nine men in ten are would be suicides."
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"Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor."
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"Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it."
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"Applause waits on success."
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"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."
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"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late."
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"He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees."
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"Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion."
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