Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was an American inventor, journalist, printer, diplomat, and statesman.
Found 199 thoughts of Benjamin Franklin
The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.
Benjamin Franklin
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
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Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
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He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.
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He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
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Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.
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A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.
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Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
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Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt.
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Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you will be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrow's; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
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We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
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Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
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Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.
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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
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Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
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