Being the Queen is not all about singing, and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your service to people. And your social contributions to your community and your civic contributions as well.


Aretha Franklin

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Hide not your talents, they for use were made,
What's a sundial in the shade?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal....
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for mon...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, tha...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Love well, whip well.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish gre...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the wa...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Observe all men, thyself most.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Where liberty is, there is my country.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The things which hurt, instruct.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all da...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN