Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was an American inventor, journalist, printer, diplomat, and statesman.
Found 199 thoughts of Benjamin Franklin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin
Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Benjamin Franklin
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
Benjamin Franklin
Good sense is a thing all need, few have, and none think they want.
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Those who would give up essential freedoms for security, deserve neither freedom nor security.
Benjamin Franklin
If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.
Benjamin Franklin
All things are easy to industry, all things are difficult to sloth.
Benjamin Franklin
The poor have little, beggars none, the rich too much, enough not one.
Benjamin Franklin
If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas.
Benjamin Franklin
To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy wealthy and wise.
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