Benjamin Franklin Quotes



       “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
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       “Well done is better than well said.” 
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       “Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
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       “He that can have patience can have what he will.” 
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       “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” 
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       “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” 
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       “Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.” 
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       “Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.” 
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       “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” 
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       “I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” 
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      “Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.” 
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       “Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away” 
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     “Never ruin an apology with an excuse.” 
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       “You may delay, but time will not.” 
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       “Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.” 
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      “Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.” 
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       “Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” 
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      “To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.” 
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      “Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.” 
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      “Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.” 
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      “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” 
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      “Life biggest tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late” 
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      “It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.” 
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      “Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.” 
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       “Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.” 
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      “Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.” 
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       “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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      “There was never a bad peace or a good war.” 
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        “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” 
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        “A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.” 
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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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        “Work as if you were to live a thousand years, play as if you were to die tomorrow.” 
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       “Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.” 
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      “Contentment makes poor men rich, Discontent makes rich men poor.” 
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       “Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.” 
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       “Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do today.” 
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        “A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.” 
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        “Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.” 
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        “When you are finished changing, you're finished.” 
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       “Believe none of what you hear, and only half of what you see.” 
- Benjamin Franklin