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Rules too soft are seldomly f...

Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

If we give up freedom for sec...

If we give up freedom for security, we are in danger of losing both.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

If you'd lose a troublesome v...

If you'd lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Kings have long arms, but Mis...

Kings have long arms, but Misfortune longer: let none think themselves out of her reach.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Cut the Wings of your Hens an...

Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

A man may, if he knows not ho...

A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

You don't get somebody to lik...

You don't get somebody to like you by doing them a favor. That only tends to build resentment over the fact that they are needy and you are not. No, you ask them to do you a favor.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Contentment makes a poor pers...

Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Unless the Stream of their Im...

Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we have, will not in my Opinion be able to preserve our Language, and even our Government will become precarious.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

The way to see by faith is to...

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

A spoonful of honey will catc...

A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

I wish it were possible, from...

I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they may be recalled to life at any period, however distant; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to any ordinary death the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine with a few friends till that time, to be then recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country!

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Those Who Sacrifice Liberty F...

Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

I hope...that mankind will at...

I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

History will also give occasi...

History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected by joining in societies and establishing government; their industry encouraged and rewarded, arts invented, and life made more comfortable; the advantages of liberty, mischiefs of licentiousness, benefits arising from good laws and a due execution of justice. Thus may the first principles of sound politics be fixed in the minds of youth.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

If you give up your freedom f...

If you give up your freedom for safety, you don't deserve either one

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

He that pays for work before ...

He that pays for work before it's done, has but a pennyworth for two pence.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Ambition has its disappointme...

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

We hear of the conversion of ...

We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Wine is constant proof that G...

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

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