Ben Franklin Quotes
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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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Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
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One today is worth two tomorrows.
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Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
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Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
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Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
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A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
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He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
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Creditors have better memories than debtors.
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Remember that credit is money.
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Beauty and folly are old companions.
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She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
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How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
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Industry need not wish.
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The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
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When you're finished changing, you're finished.
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All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
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Fatigue is the best pillow.
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A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
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Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
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Nine men in ten are would be suicides.
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If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
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If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
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It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
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There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
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Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
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Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
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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.
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Games lubricate the body and the mind.
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He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
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The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
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Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
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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.
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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
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By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
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I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
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In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
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The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
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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.
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A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
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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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Beware the hobby that eats.
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Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
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Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
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I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
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In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
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Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security.
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Where liberty is, there is my country.
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Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
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There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
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When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
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Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
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Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
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It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
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Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
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The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
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The discontented man finds no easy chair.
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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.
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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
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Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
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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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Honesty is the best policy.
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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
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Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
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Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
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We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
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He that's secure is not safe.
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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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A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
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An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
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If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
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A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
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God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
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Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
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The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
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The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.
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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
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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.
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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
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Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
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If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
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Diligence is the mother of good luck.
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Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.
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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
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Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
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Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
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Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
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You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
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Never confuse motion with action.
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A penny saved is a penny earned.
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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.
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Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
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Necessity never made a good bargain.
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Our necessities never equal our wants.
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To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
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A place for everything, everything in its place.
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A small leak can sink a great ship.
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Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
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He that can have patience can have what he will.
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Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
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He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
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There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
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When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
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If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
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Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
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Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
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Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
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You may delay, but time will not.
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He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
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Observe all men, thyself most.
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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
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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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God helps those who help themselves.
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Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
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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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Mine is better than ours.
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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
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Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
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Hunger is the best pickle.
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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
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Well done is better than well said.
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Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
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Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
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Applause waits on success.
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Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
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Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
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Energy and persistence conquer all things.
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Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
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Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
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He that rises late must trot all day.
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If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
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Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
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Lost time is never found again.
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Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
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Time is money.
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Time is money.
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No nation was ever ruined by trade.
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Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
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Half a truth is often a great lie.
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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.
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If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
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It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
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All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
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Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
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Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
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He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
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He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
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It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
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Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
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Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
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He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
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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.
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Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
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The doors of wisdom are never shut.
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The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
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The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
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When in doubt, don't.
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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
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Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
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If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
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It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
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Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
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As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
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Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
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If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
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If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
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