Benjamin Franklin Quotes (page 4)

1706–1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat · Wikipedia · Wikidata
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“Drive your business, let not you're business drive you.”
Business
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“You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.”
Success
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“He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.”
Love
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“If you would know the value of money try to borrow some.”
Borrowing
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“If we do not hang together, we will all hang separately.”
Cooperation
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“Take time for all things; great haste makes great waste.”
Hatred
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“Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.”
Health
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“He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.”
Wealth
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“I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.”
Enemies
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“Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.”
Wealth
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“When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.”
Gratitude
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“Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.”
Laziness
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“Experience keeps a school, yet fools will learn in no other.”
Experience
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“The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.”
Eyes
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“Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late”
Life and Living
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“Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.”
Manners
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“It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.”
Repentance
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“He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.”
Rest
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“Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.”
Expenditure
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“God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.”
Law and Lawyers
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“The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.”
Money
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“Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.”
Certainty
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“A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.”
Ignorance
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“Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.”
Contentment
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“Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.”
Law and Lawyers
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“Tomorrow every fault is to be amended; but tomorrow never comes.”
Tomorrow
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“Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.”
Judgment and Judges
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