Wednesday, 19 October 2011

Benjamin Franklin Quotes and Sayings(11)


It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
~Benjamin Franklin
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It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
~Benjamin Franklin
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It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
~Benjamin Franklin
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It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
~Benjamin Franklin
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“A good example is the best sermon.”
―Benjamin Franklin
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“A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.”
― Benjamin Franklin
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“Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.”
― Benjamin Franklin
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“Security without liberty is called prison.”
― Benjamin Franklin
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 “Eat to live, don't live to eat.”
― Benjamin Franklin
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It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
~Benjamin Franklin
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It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
~Benjamin Franklin
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Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
~Benjamin Franklin
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Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
~Benjamin Franklin
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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
~Benjamin Franklin
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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
~Benjamin Franklin
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Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
~Benjamin Franklin
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Mine is better than ours.
~Benjamin Franklin
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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
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Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
~Benjamin Franklin
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Necessity never made a good bargain.
~Benjamin Franklin
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Never confuse motion with action.
~Benjamin Franklin
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Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
~Benjamin Franklin
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Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
~Benjamin Franklin
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Nine men in ten are would be suicides.
~Benjamin Franklin
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