ben franklin
Benjamin Franklin was a writer, a philosopher, a scientist, a politician, a patriot, a Founding Father, an inventor, and publisher. He helped with the founding of the United States of America and changed the world with his discoveries about electricity. His writings such as Poor Richards' Almanac have provided wisdom for 17 years to the colonies.
“Some people are weatherwise, and most are otherwise.”
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“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rottin', either write things width reading or do things worth writing.”
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“I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.”
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“You only have the right to pursue happiness; you have to catch it yourself.”
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“If you give up your freedom for safety, you don't deserve either one.”
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“If you FAIL to PLAN. You PLAN to FAIL.”
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“The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty”
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“you can do anything you set your mind to”
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“Nothing ventured, nothing gained!!!”
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“Don't cry over spilled milk”
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“In the Affairs of this World Men are saved, not by Faith,but by the Lack of it.”
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“god grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that anybody may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country!”
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“Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.”
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“Fish and visitors smell in three days.”
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“When you're testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.”
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“The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.”
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“The purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting.”
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“Work as if you were to live a thousand years, play as if you were to die tomorrow.”
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“Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.”
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“There was never a bad peace or a good war.”
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“If you have a bald head don't walk out in the sun because you will get burned.”
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“Nine men in ten are suicides.”
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“If we look back into history for the character of present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another. The first Protestants of the Church of England, blamed persecution in the Roman church, but practised it against the Puritans: these found it wrong in the Bishops, but fell into the same practice themselves both here and in New England.[Letter to the London Packet, 3 June 1772]”
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