It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin 
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- 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
Well done is better than well said.
- 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
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- 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 house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- 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
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- 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
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin
One good Husband is worth two good Wives;
for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.
- Benjamin Franklin
There was never a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
- 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
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin
Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hunger is the best pickle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never has there been a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir
You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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