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Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Give me yesterday’s bread, this day’s flesh, and last year’s cider Picture Quote #1

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. When it comes to investing, nothing will pay off more than educating yourself. Do the necessary research, study and analysis before making any investment decisions Picture Quote #1

Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths Picture Quote #1

A policy of life insurance is the cheapest and safest mode of making a certain provision for one’s family Picture Quote #1

In free governments the rulers are the servants and the people are their superiors and sovereigns Picture Quote #1

If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds Picture Quote #1

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I’ve striven my whole life for humility, but if I’d ever achieved it, I’d probably be pretty damn proud of that Picture Quote #1

What is the recipe for successful achievement? Choose a career you love. Give it the best there is in you. Seize your opportunities. And be a member of the team Picture Quote #1

If you do tomorrow what you did today, you will get tomorrow what you got today Picture Quote #1

If your riches are yours, why don’t you take them with you to the other world? Picture Quote #1

I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence Picture Quote #1

If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect. But after all much depends upon the people who are governed Picture Quote #1

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A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone Picture Quote #1

A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society? Picture Quote #1

The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated Picture Quote #1

Let every one ascertain his special business and calling, and then stick to it if he wants to be successful Picture Quote #1

After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together Picture Quote #1

The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent Picture Quote #1

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Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope Picture Quote #1

As we benefit from the inventions of others, we should be glad to share our own... freely and gladly Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity Picture Quote #1

Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly Picture Quote #1

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I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowledgment of our services. But let us persevere through abuse and even injury. The internal satisfaction of a good conscience is always present, and time will do us justice in the minds of the people, even those at present the most prejudiced against us Picture Quote #1

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one’s own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last Picture Quote #1

The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose Picture Quote #1

I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business Picture Quote #1

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Give me yesterday’s bread, this day’s flesh, and last year’s cider (Benjamin Franklin Quotes) An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. When it comes to investing, nothing will pay off more than educating yourself. Do the necessary research, study and analysis before making any investment decisions (Benjamin Franklin Quotes) Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths (Benjamin Franklin Quotes) A policy of life insurance is the cheapest and safest mode of making a certain provision for one’s family (Benjamin Franklin Quotes) In free governments the rulers are the servants and the people are their superiors and sovereigns (Benjamin Franklin Quotes) If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds (Benjamin Franklin Quotes) I’ve striven my whole life for humility, but if I’d ever achieved it, I’d probably be pretty damn proud of that (Benjamin Franklin Quotes) What is the recipe for successful achievement? Choose a career you love. Give it the best there is in you. Seize your opportunities. And be a member of the team (Benjamin Franklin Quotes) If you do tomorrow what you did today, you will get tomorrow what you got today (Benjamin Franklin Quotes) If your riches are yours, why don’t you take them with you to the other world? (Benjamin Franklin Quotes) I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence (Benjamin Franklin Quotes) If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect. But after all much depends upon the people who are governed (Benjamin Franklin Quotes) A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone (Benjamin Franklin Quotes) A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society? (Benjamin Franklin Quotes) The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated (Benjamin Franklin Quotes) Let every one ascertain his special business and calling, and then stick to it if he wants to be successful (Benjamin Franklin Quotes) After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together (Benjamin Franklin Quotes) The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent (Benjamin Franklin Quotes) Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope (Benjamin Franklin Quotes) As we benefit from the inventions of others, we should be glad to share our own... freely and gladly (Benjamin Franklin Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity (Benjamin Franklin Quotes) Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly (Benjamin Franklin Quotes) I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating (Benjamin Franklin Quotes) 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 Quotes) We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowledgment of our services. But let us persevere through abuse and even injury. The internal satisfaction of a good conscience is always present, and time will do us justice in the minds of the people, even those at present the most prejudiced against us (Benjamin Franklin Quotes) So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one’s own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last (Benjamin Franklin Quotes) The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose (Benjamin Franklin Quotes) I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business (Benjamin Franklin Quotes)

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