Tag: Benjamin Franklin
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Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Benjamin Franklin
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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
Benjamin Franklin
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Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
Benjamin Franklin
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Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
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A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Benjamin Franklin
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In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
Benjamin Franklin
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Applause waits on success.
Benjamin Franklin
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In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, 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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Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Benjamin Franklin
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The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin