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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
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What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
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We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin 
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- 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
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- 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
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
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- 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
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]
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
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
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
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- 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
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
- Benjamin Franklin
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
- 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
Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
- 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
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford
When any situation arises which tempts you to become disturbed,
say: "There is another way of looking at this."
- A Course In Miracles
Choose to See Beauty and Joy:
Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
Begin to act from your dominion.
Declare the truth by telling yourself
that there is nothing to be afraid of,
that you no longer entertain any images of fear.
- Ernest Holmes
"Good morning!" he said at last.
"We don't want any adventures here, thank you!
You might try over The Hill or across The Water."
- J. R. R. Tolkien
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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