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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. ...
by Benjamin Franklin

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin

Related topics: Wisdom

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin PHOTO

We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin

When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin

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A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin

For want of a nail the shoe was lost;
for want of a shoe the horse was lost;
and for want of a horse the rider was lost.
- Benjamin Franklin

 

Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin

He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin

If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin

I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin

Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin

Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin

We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin

Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin

Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin

A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin

Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin

Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin

Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin

They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin

Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin

Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin

Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin

Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin

A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]

What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin

A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin

It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin

Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Benjamin Franklin

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin

A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin

Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- Benjamin Franklin

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]

People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin

Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
- Benjamin Franklin

There was never a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin

He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.
- Benjamin Franklin

At twenty years of age the will reigns;
at thirty, the wit;
and at forty, the judgment.
- Benjamin Franklin

Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
- Benjamin Franklin

One good Husband is worth two good Wives;
for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.
- Benjamin Franklin

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin

Never has there been a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin

Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.
- Benjamin Franklin

Hunger is the best pickle.
- Benjamin Franklin

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

An ounce of conscious choice is worth a pound of good fortune.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Prevention is better than cure.
- Desiderius Erasmus

Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Believe that life is worth living,
and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James

If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller
...
Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind
to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist
for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt

The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde

The glow of one warm thought
is to me worth more than money.
- Thomas Jefferson

The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing,
we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger,
but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
- Robert Cushing

One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll

Outer show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
- Aesop

There is no short cut to achievement.
Life requires thorough preparation -
veneer isn't worth anything.
- George Washington Carver

Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous

If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca

The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates

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