Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was an American inventor, journalist, printer, diplomat, and statesman.
Found 199 thoughts of Benjamin Franklin
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
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To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
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What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things.
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To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
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The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief,Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
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He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
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All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
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Sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its Faults, if they are such; because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no Form of Government but what may be a Blessing to the People if well administered; and I believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a Course of Years, and can only end in Despotism as other Forms have done before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other.
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It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
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If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
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We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin
