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For having lived long, I have ...

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

In my youth, I traveled much, ...

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

I should have no objection to ...

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Those disputing, contradicting...

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

We are more thoroughly an enli...

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Those who govern, having much ...

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

It is a grand mistake to think...

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Gain may be temporary and unce...

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Without freedom of thought, th...

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech; which is the right of every man as far as by it he does not hurt or control the right of another; and this is the only check it ought to suffer and the only bounds it ought to know.... Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech, a thing terrible to traitors.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

The early morning has gold in ...

The early morning has gold in its mouth.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

We are not so sensible of the ...

We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Who is strong? He that can con...

Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

I was surprised to find myself...

I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Happiness consists more in sma...

Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

By heaven we understand a stat...

By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

I would rather have it said, '...

I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

The general policy of the past...

The general policy of the past has been to drive, but the era of force must give way to that of knowledge, and the policy of the future will be to teach and to lead, to the advantage of all concerned.
Henry Gantt
If a man empties his purse into his head no man can take it from him. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Were the offer made true, I wo...

Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author, to correct, in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Life is rather a state of embr...

Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

I resolve to speak ill of no m...

I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

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