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Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
By Benjamin Franklin
Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty.
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They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
By Benjamin Franklin
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.
By Benjamin Franklin
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety
By Benjamin Franklin
They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
By Benjamin Franklin
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government
By Benjamin Franklin
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
By Benjamin Franklin
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self
By Benjamin Franklin
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
By Benjamin Franklin
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
By Benjamin Franklin
The small progress we have made after four or five weeks close attendance and continual reasonings with each other is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient history for models of government, and examined the different forms of those republics which, having been formed with seeds of their own dissolution, now no longer exist.
By Benjamin Franklin
The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?
By Benjamin Franklin
The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse
By Benjamin Franklin