Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!"
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"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!"
Benjamin Franklin
"“Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.”"
Benjamin Franklin
"“Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”"
Benjamin Franklin
"Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?"
Benjamin Franklin
"Lost time is never found again."
Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanack
"In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves if a child died under it; my example showing that the regret may be the same either way, and that, therefore, the safer should be chosen."
Benjamin Franklin
"A man who would sacrifice freedom for security deserves neither."
Benjamin Franklin
"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."
Benjamin Franklin
"To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote."
Benjamin Franklin
"Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no ambition corrupt thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollily; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas."
Benjamin Franklin
"So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do."
Benjamin Franklin
"... I think this Law, by which I am punished, is both unreasonable in itself, and particularly severe... Polly Baker"
Benjamin Franklin
"He who can have patience can have what he will."
Benjamin Franklin
"We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."
Benjamin Franklin
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Benjamin Franklin
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!"
Benjamin Franklin
"Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all"
Benjamin Franklin
"I didn't fail the test. I just found 100 different ways to do it wrong."
Benjamin Franklin
"After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser."
Benjamin Franklin
"Imitate Jesus and Socrates"
Benjamin Franklin
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