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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.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Best
#Business
#Hands
#New
#Wisdom
Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Free
#Government
#Money
#People
#See
I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Chance
#Experience
#Truth
#Will
#World
I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Interest
#Never
#Private
#Profit
#World
My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Age
#Church
#Father
#Me
#Service
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Business
#First
#Going
#Mistake
#Public
He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Complete
#Got
#He
#Man
#Wife
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.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Religion
#See
#Serious
#Work
#World
Danger is sauce for prayers.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Danger
#Prayers
#Sauce
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Good
#Habit
#Time
#Us
#Worst
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the 'Pilgrim's Progress,' my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Collection
#Hands
#Money
#Out
#Progress
You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
- Benjamin Franklin
#Bear
#Fault
#Own
#Why
#Wife
In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Hard
#Natural
#Our
#Pride
#Reality
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.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Good
#People
#Sometimes
#Victory
#Will
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Improvement
#Man
#Political
#Respect
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Die
#Heart
#Men
#Tongue
#Woman
No nation was ever ruined by trade.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Ever
#Nation
#Ruined
#Trade
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Constitution
#Death
#Look
#Morning
#Rise
#Sleep
Mine is better than ours.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Better
#Mine
#Ours
#Than
When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Befriend
#Forget
#Remember
#You
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Beginning
#End
#First
#Go
#Life
Games lubricate the body and the mind.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Body
#Games
#Mind
He that's secure is not safe.
- Benjamin Franklin
#He
#Safe
#Secure
And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Depends
#Honest Man
#Man
#Me
#Thief
Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Everything
#Sense
#Wanting
#Where
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Feel
#Only
#Rich
#Sick
#Wealth
Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Away
#Hour
#Minute
#Sure
#Thou
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Content
#He
#Nobody
#Rich
#Who
In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Course
#Done
#More
#Poor
#Youth
Our necessities never equal our wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Equal
#Necessities
#Never
#Our
#Wants
When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
- Benjamin Franklin
#Agree
#Difficulties
#Mankind
#Will
Observe all men, thyself most.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Men
#Most
#Observe
#Thyself
Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Business
#Places
#Things
#Time
#Your
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Done
#Kindness
#Ready
#Will
#Yourself
A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Child
#Ever
#Scarce
#Thinks
#Years
God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
- Benjamin Franklin
#God
#Lawyer
#Man
#Now And Then
#Now
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Gain
#Leisure
#Thou
#Time
#Well
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Account
#Every
#Idle
#Must
#Silence
The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Advantage
#Having
#Money
#Use
Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Few
#Good
#Gray
#Grow
#Many
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Because
#Call
#Manners
#Savages
#Them
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Family
#Observe
#Pleasure
#Sorrow
#Stand
Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Fire
#Her
#House
#Never
#Wife
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Book
#He
#Himself
#Than
#Wiser
As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Enjoy
#Great
#Invention
#Opportunity
Remember that credit is money.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Credit
#Money
#Remember
It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Blind
#Clothes
#Furniture
#People
#Want
The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Cart
#Most
#Noise
#Wheel
#Worst
Applause waits on success.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Applause
#Success
#Waits
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Buying
#He
#Man
#Pleasure
#Selling
Fatigue is the best pillow.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Best
#Fatigue
#Pillow
Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Feel
#Hear
#Her
#Reason
#She
Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Build
#Keep
#Live
#Temporary
#Two
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Greater
#Ignorant
#Learned
#Than
A penny saved is two pence clear.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Clear
#Penny
#Saved
#Two
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Admiration
#Daughter
#Ignorance
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Acting
#Art
#Coughing
#Keeping
#People
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Cats
#Fish
#Lawyers
#Like
#Two
Industry need not wish.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Industry
#Need
#Wish
I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Being
#Fat
#Guess
#Mind
#Old
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.'
- Benjamin Franklin
#Country
#God
#Knowledge
#Liberty
#Love
#Man
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Cake
#Edges
#Great
#Like
#Most
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Better
#Change
#Information
#Long
#Right
He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
- Benjamin Franklin
#He
#Helped
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Head
#His
#Man
#Purse
#Take
He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Both
#Danger
#He
#Wallet
#Wife
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Becomes
#Injustice
#Law
#Sometimes
There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man's making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his lands.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Best
#Man
#Profit
#Right
#Stronger
Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
- Benjamin Franklin
#He
#His
#Portion
#Rich
#Who
For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Bad
#Bald
#Bird
#Character
#Country
If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Desire
#Many
#Seem
#Things
#Will
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Desire
#Easier
#First
#Follow
#Satisfy
If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Faithful
#Like
#Servant
#Serve
#Yourself
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
- Benjamin Franklin
#False
#Great
#Mankind
#Things
#Value
He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
- Benjamin Franklin
#He
#Him
#Possess
#Possesses
#Wealth
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Everybody
#Good
#Know
#Man
#Speak
Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Buy
#Long
#Need
#Sell
#Thou
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Lessen
#Life
#Meals
#Thy
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Get
#How
#Know
#Spend
#Stone
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Doing
#Leisure
#Person
#Time
#Will
So convenient a thing it is 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
#Find
#Make
#Mind
#Reason
#Reasonable
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Enemies
#Good
#Keep
#Win
#Your
He that rises late must trot all day.
- Benjamin Franklin
#All Day
#Day
#He
#Late
#Must
She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Everything
#Fine
#She
#Teeth
#Why
Nine men in ten are would be suicides.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Men
#Nine
#Ten
#Would
When the well is dry, they know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Dry
#Know
#Water
#Well
#Worth
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Content
#Discontent
#Men
#Poor
#Rich
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Great Man
#Great
#Man
#Never
#Time
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Bargain
#Good
#Made
#Necessity
#Never
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Better
#Debtors
#Memories
#Than
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Happens
#Happy
#Man
#Result
#Two
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Go
#Know
#Money
#Try
#Value
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Fall
#Good People
#Good
#Government
#People
Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Acknowledge
#Most
#People
#Return
#Small
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
- Benjamin Franklin
#His
#Wealth
Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Blessed
#He
#Never
#Nothing
#Shall
To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Alone
#Blindly
#Faith
#Follow
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Anything
#Little
#Nobody
#Sure
#Would
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Precious
#Things
#Time
#Wasting Time
Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.
- Benjamin Franklin
#Amended
#Every
#Fault
#Never
#Tomorrow
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