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]
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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin 
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin
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A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- 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
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- 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
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- 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
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
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- Benjamin Franklin
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Benjamin Franklin
Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.
- Benjamin Franklin
There was never a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
- Benjamin Franklin
At twenty years of age the will reigns;
at thirty, the wit;
and at forty, the judgment.
- Benjamin Franklin
One good Husband is worth two good Wives;
for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
- Benjamin Franklin
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hunger is the best pickle.
- 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
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Just stop it. Seriously.
Whatever it is. Just stop it.
If only for an hour, a day, a week.
Stop doing it long enough to get a glimpse
of what the change would actually look like.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
To have a right to do a thing
is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Life's most urgent question is:
what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson
Merely to avoid harming others is not enough.
Earn your place in this world by doing good.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All wrong-doing arises because of mind.
If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
- The Buddha
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
We keep moving forward, opening new doors,
and doing new things, because we're curious
and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field. I will meet you there.
- Rumi
Courage is not always about action,
and it doesn't always involve danger,
but courage is always doing what is right.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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