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Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- 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
Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
- Benjamin Franklin
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- 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]
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
There was never a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
At twenty years of age the will reigns;
at thirty, the wit;
and at forty, the judgment.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- 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
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
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
- Benjamin Franklin
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin
Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.
- Benjamin Franklin
I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.
- 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
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Benjamin Franklin
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never has there been a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better than well said.
- 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
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- 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
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There's nothing wrong with being afraid.
We were meant to be afraid.
- the Woody Allen movie Anything Else
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears,
for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
- Albert Einstein
Fear of death ... That's funny. I have that too.
My dog has it. It's very common with living creatures.
- the movie Anything Else (2003)
I have no fear of the gallows ... They're going to shoot me.
- the movie Love and Death
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering
is worse than the suffering itself.
- Paulo Coelho
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Puritanism. The haunting fear that
someone, somewhere, may be happy.
- H. L. Mencken
Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter
for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic,
for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
- Robert Lindner
It is an open question whether any behavior
based on fear of eternal punishment
can be regarded as ethical
or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
- Margaret Mead
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
It is when power is wedded to chronic fear
that it becomes formidable.
- Eric Hoffer
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
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and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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