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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Benjamin.
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
- Benjamin Spock
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
- Benjamin Spock
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
Every man and woman is born into the world
to do something unique and something distinctive;
and if he or she does not do it,
it will never be done.
- Benjamin E. Mays
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
Action may not always bring happiness;
but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli
I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
- Benjamin E. Mays
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- 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
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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
Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- Benjamin Franklin
Travel teaches toleration.
- Benjamin Disraeli
There are three types of lies -
lies, damn lies, and statistics.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- 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
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- 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]
There is a magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships;
it softens the heart,
and even affects the nervous system
of those who have no heart.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.
- Benjamin Franklin
There was never a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
I must follow the people.
Am I not their leader?
- Benjamin Disraeli
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.
- Benjamin Franklin
Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin
One good Husband is worth two good Wives;
for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.
- Benjamin Franklin
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never has there been a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hunger is the best pickle.
- Benjamin Franklin
At twenty years of age the will reigns;
at thirty, the wit;
and at forty, the judgment.
- Benjamin Franklin
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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