As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.


Benjamin Franklin

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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones -- with ingratitude.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Tomorrow every fault is to be amended; but tomorrow never comes.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Most fools think they are only ignorant.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfort...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervad...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If you would keep your secret from an enemy,
tell it not to a friend.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN