Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.
Benjamin Franklin
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JOHANN GOETHE Benjamin Franklin said the first thing you have to sell is yourself.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want.
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ASHLEY JOHNSON There never was a good war, or a bad peace. -Benjamin Franklin.
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OSWALD SPENGLER Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Seneca -Benjamin Franklin.
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MATTHEW STEWART " Ah, this is the constitution," he said. "Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuou...
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ALEXANDER HAMILTON One day, I saw a statue of Benjamin Franklin, and I said to myself, 'I can do that kind of work,...
EDMONIA LEWIS I would not have one as a pet. The only things they think about are food, reproduction and survival....
GARY MORSE We Germans have learned from history. We are a peace-loving, freedom-loving people. There is only on...
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BRAD SARGENT The myth that young people should leave the nest at 18, never to return, started with iconic America...
ANNALEE NEWITZ The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart. -Benjamin Frank...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.
CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of vi...
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done." Benjamin Franklin
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating part...
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JAMES F. COOPER Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination...
KATHERINE JOHNSON These people need to pay more attention to the money they are taking. It's corrupt. I don't like it....
BILL CURRY People only have their kind of love to give. But does it mean they don't love with all they are capa...
ALEXANDRA PINTO Kids are capable of doing so much more than they think they are. They just need somebody to push the...
KATIE QUINN I’ve noticed in my life that the people who act as my angels are not some strange angelic creature...
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JEFF WEINER Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who mad...
EARL WILSON Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more inte...
OSMAN RASHID I am a witness to nations and people deprived of their freedom. I was there. I watched that great Ir...
EZRA TAFT BENSON The vicious circle has been shattered. Canadians now enjoy the benefits of the virtuous circle.
PAUL MARTIN Americans understand that one of our great national strengths is innovation. Great innovators - Benj...
ROBERT HORMATS We haven't peaked yet. They (Holmen) have more depth than we do, but you only need four scores. We h...
AMY DUPONT People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have. For example, the freedom of thought. Instead t...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Hate music has really become a very, very essential highway for how these hate movements are reachin...
PAUL GOLDENBERG This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseles...
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WENDELL WILLKIE Virtuous and vicious everyone must be; few in extremes, but all in degree.
ALEXANDER POPE Some are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become...
UMERA AHMED To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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ANURAG KASHYAP To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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DAVE BARRY Not only are they capable of learning the material, but they are capable of approaching the subject ...
MICHAEL COOK Horace, when you get older, try to avoid being saddled with an apprentice. Not only are they a damne...
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EDGAR MITCHELL There is no freedom without groceries. There are no groceries without freedom. What people call '...
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COREY LESSARD To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only
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JAMES BALDWIN And those are the Rich, who transmit what they have to their Posterity; whereby particular Families ...
DUDLEY NORTH They need more personnel and they need more assets, ... Not only have they acquired more tasks, but ...
WILLIAM DELAHUNT For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Frank...
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but none of us is as capable as all of us!!
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When in doubt, don't.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Lost time is never found again.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Well, Doctor, what have we gota Republic or a Monarchy?A Republic, if you can keep it.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Dr. Franklin was for retaining the clause on impeachment, as favorable to the executive. History fur...
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this trut...
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN One today is worth two tomorrows.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Sometimes when I close my eyes, I can't see.
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What's a sundial in the shade?
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Love well, whip well.
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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.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The things which hurt, instruct.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Those that won't be counseled can't be helped.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by Greek.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN What has become clear to you since we last met?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Our necessities never equal our wants.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you would know the value of money try to borrow some.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If we do not hang together, we will all hang separately.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Take time for all things; great haste makes great waste.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.
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.
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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.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties...
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Most fools think they are only ignorant.
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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