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Idleness is the Dead Sea that...

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

an enormous proportion of pro...

an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, therefore, every free state hath a right by its laws to discourage the possession of such property.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

As to the kindness you mentio...

As to the kindness you mention, I wish I could have been of more service to you than I have been, but if I had, the only thanks that I should desire are that you would always be ready to serve any other person that may need your assistance, and so let good offices go around, for humankind are all of a family. As for my own part, when I am employed in serving others I do not look upon myself as conferring favors but paying debts.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

He that drinks fast, pays slo...

He that drinks fast, pays slow.
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
There can't be good living where there is not good drinking.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

A lonely man on a rainy night...

A lonely man on a rainy night who cannot read.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

What science can there be mor...

What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

If all but myself were blind,...

If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Hope and faith may be more fi...

Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

He that resolves to mend here...

He that resolves to mend hereafter, resolves not to mend now.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Grace thou thy house and let ...

Grace thou thy house and let not that grace thee.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Neglect kills injuries, reven...

Neglect kills injuries, revenge increases them.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

The only things of certainty ...

The only things of certainty are Death and Taxes.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

If Pride leads the Van, Begga...

If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

And we daily in our experimen...

And we daily in our experiments electrise bodies plus or minus, as we think proper. [These terms we may use till your Philosophers give us better.] To electrise plus or minus, no more needs to be known than this, that the parts of the Tube or Sphere, that are rubb'd, do, in the Instant of Friction, attract the Electrical Fire, and therefore take it from the Thin rubbing; the same parts immediately, as the Friction upon them ceases, are disposed to give the fire they have received, to any Body that has less.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Nothing in the world is certa...

Nothing in the world is certain except for death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Private property...is the cre...

Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

If a sound body and a sound m...

If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred before all other considerations, ought not men, in choosing a business either for themselves or children, to refuse such as are unwholesome for the body, and such as make a man too dependent, too much obliged to please others, and too much subjected to their humors in order to be recommended and get a livelihood?

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Why should Pennsylvania, foun...

Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

The wise and the brave dares ...

The wise and the brave dares own that he was wrong.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

I know as well as thee that I...

I know as well as thee that I am no poet born
It is a trade, I never learnt nor indeed could learn
If I make verses-'tis in spite
Of nature and my stars I write.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

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