Benjamin Franklin Quotes and Sayings(6)

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

`Benjamin Franklin

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Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

~Benjamin Franklin

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Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

~Benjamin Franklin

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Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

~Benjamin Franklin

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“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”

~Benjamin Franklin quote

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“I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”
― Benjamin Franklin

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“Never confuse Motion with Action.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 

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But I must own that I am much in the Dark about Light. I am not satisfy'd with the doctrine that supposes particles of matter call'd light continually driven off from the Sun's Surface, with a Swiftness so prodigious!

~Benjamin Franklin's Letter to Cadwallader Colden (April 23, 1752).

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Every Body cries, a Union is absolutely necessary, but when they come to the Manner and Form of the Union, their weak Noddles are perfectly distracted.

~Benjamin Franklin's Letter to Peter Collinson (29 December 1754); published in The Writings of Benjamin Franklin (1905), edited by Albert Henry Smyth, Vol. III, p. 242; also misquoted using "Noodles" for "Noddles".

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“Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away”
― Benjamin Franklin

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“It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it”

~Benjamin Franklin quote

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Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
~Benjamin Franklin

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Fatigue is the best pillow.
~Benjamin Franklin
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For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
~Benjamin Franklin
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
~Benjamin Franklin
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Games lubricate the body and the mind.
~Benjamin Franklin

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“When in doubt, don't.”

~Benjamin Franklin quote

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“When you are finished changing, you're finished.”
― Benjamin Franklin

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“When you're testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.”
― Benjamin Franklin

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Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults. 

Poor Richard's Almanack (1756); this has also been quoted in a paraphrased form used by Bill Clinton in [1998 address to Beijing University, as "Our critics are our friends, they show us our faults."

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The Way to see by Faith, is to shut the Eye of Reason:
The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle. 

~Benjamin Franklin .Poor Richard’s Almanack (July 1758) 

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Idleness and Pride Tax with a heavier Hand than Kings and Parliaments; If we can get rid of the former we may easily bear the Latter. 

~Benjamin Franklin

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