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An investment in education al...

An investment in education always pays the highest returns.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Nothing brings more pain than...

Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

If we look back into history ...

If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Idleness is the Dead Sea that...

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Poverty often deprives a man ...

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Men are subject to various in...

Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in the common occurrences of life, as well as in a battle. How many impertinences do we daily suffer with great uneasiness, because we have not courage enough to discover our dislike.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

If we do not hang together, w...

If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Great talkers are little doer...

Great talkers are little doers.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Strangers are welcome because...

Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of them; the Laws protect them sufficiently so that they have no need of the Patronage of great Men; and every one will enjoy securely the Profits of his Industry. But if he does not bring a Fortune with him, he must work and be industrious to live.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Setting too good an Example i...

Setting too good an Example is a Kind of slander seldom forgiven.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

We may give advice, but we ca...

We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

After crosses and losses men ...

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

On being asked what condition...

On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

To bear other people's afflic...

To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Cold & cunning come from the ...

Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Early to bed and early to ris...

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." He planned his routine around waking up at 5 a.m. and asking himself "What good shall I do this day?

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Pain wastes the Body, Pleasur...

Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Passion governs, and she neve...

Passion governs, and she never governs wisely.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

He that hath a trade hath an ...

He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Indeed the general natural Te...

Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness of Virtue of all Kinds, Publick Spirit, Fortitude.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

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