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I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
One good Husband is worth two good Wives;
for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.
- Benjamin Franklin
Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- Benjamin Franklin
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A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
- Benjamin Franklin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin
Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
- Benjamin Franklin
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
There was never a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
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.
- Benjamin Franklin
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never has there been a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
For want of a nail the shoe was lost;
for want of a shoe the horse was lost;
and for want of a horse the rider was lost.
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
At twenty years of age the will reigns;
at thirty, the wit;
and at forty, the judgment.
- Benjamin Franklin
Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.
- Benjamin Franklin
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.
- Benjamin Franklin
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Benjamin Franklin
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Hunger is the best pickle.
- Benjamin Franklin
The Lord prefers common-looking people.
That is why he makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
Lord, where we are wrong,
make us willing to change;
where we are right,
make us easy to live with.
- Peter Marshall
Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
In boundless love as a Christian and as a man
I read through the passage which tells us
how the Lord at last rose in His might
and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple
the brood of vipers and of adders.
- Adolf Hitler
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives
as much as if we had never married at all.
- Lord Byron
Advice is seldom welcome,
and those who need it the most, like it the least.
- Lord Chesterfield
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted,
every hill and mountain shall be made low,
the rough places will be made straight
and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed
and all flesh shall see it together.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St Francis of Assisi
Lord, grant comfort, joy and health
to those I call friend,
to those I call enemy,
and to those I have cursed by my indifference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you would convince others,
seem open to conviction yourself.
- Lord Chesterfield
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Be the chief but never the lord.
- Lao Tzu
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