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Strangers Are Welcome Because There Is Room Enough For Them All, And Therefore The Old Inhabitants Are Not Jealous Of Them; The Laws Protect Them Sufficiently So That They Have No Need Of The Patronage Of Great Men; And Every One Will Enjoy Securely The Profits Of His Industry. But If He Does Not Bring A Fortune With Him, He Must Work And Be Industrious To Live.

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Strangers Are Welcome Because

Benjamin Franklin

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Strangers Are Welcome Because There Is Room Enough For Them All, And Therefore The Old Inhabitants Are Not Jealous Of Them; The Laws Protect Them Sufficiently So That They Have No Need Of The Patronage Of Great Men; And Every One Will Enjoy Securely The Profits Of His Industry. But If He Does Not Bring A Fortune With Him, He Must Work And Be Industrious To Live.

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Neglect Mending A Small Fault And 'twill Soon Be A Great One.

The Pleasures Of This World Are Rather From God's Goodness Than Our Own Merit.

There Is No Kind Of Dishonesty Into Which Otherwise Good People More Easily And Frequently Fall Than That Of Defrauding The Government.

As To The Kindness You Mention, I Wish I Could Have Been Of More Service To You Than I Have Been, But If I Had, The Only Thanks That I Should Desire Are That You Would Always Be Ready To Serve Any Other Person That May Need Your Assistance, And So Let Good Offices Go Around, For Humankind Are All Of A Family. As For My Own Part, When I Am Employed In Serving Others I Do Not Look Upon Myself As Conferring Favors But Paying Debts.

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Little Rogues Easily Become Great Ones.

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I Wish It Were Possible, From This Instance, To Invent A Method Of Embalming Drowned Persons In Such A Manner That They May Be Recalled To Life At Any Period, However Distant; For Having A Very Ardent Desire To See And Observe The State Of America A Hundred Years Hence, I Should Prefer To Any Ordinary Death The Being Immersed In A Cask Of Madeira Wine With A Few Friends Till That Time, To Be Then Recalled To Life By The Solar Warmth Of My Dear Country!

Laws Without Morals Are In Vain.

If Passion Drives You, Let Reason Hold The Reins.

Let Honesty And Industry Be Thy Constant Companions, And Spend One Penny Less Than Thy Clear Gains; Then Shall Thy Pocket Begin To Thrive; Creditors Will Not Insult, Nor Want Oppress, Nor Hungerness Bite, Nor Nakedness Freeze Thee

The Best Doctor Gives The Least Medicines.

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Sloth Makes All Things Difficult, But Industry All Things Easy.

Pride Gets Into The Coach, And Shame Mounts Behind.

I Think That A Young State, Like A Young Virgin, Should Modestly Stay At Home, And Wait The Application Of Suitors For An Alliance With Her; And Not Run About Offering Her Amity To All The World; And Hazarding Their Refusal. Our Virgin Is A Jolly One; And Tho At Present Not Very Rich, Will In Time Be A Great Fortune, And Where She Has A Favorable Predisposition, It Seems To Me Well Worth Cultivating.

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Be Ashamed To Catch Yourself Idle.

Those Renowned Generals [alexander And Caesar] Received More Faithful Service, And Performed Greater Actions By Means Of The Love Their Soldiers Bore Them, Than They Could Possibly Have Done, If Instead Of Being Beloved And Respected They Had Been Hated And Feared By Those They Commanded.

Women Are Books, And Men The Readers Be.

Money Never Made A Man Happy Yet, Nor Will It. There Is Nothing In Its Nature To Produce Happiness. The More A Man Has, The More He Wants. Instead Of Its Filling A Vacuum, It Makes One. If It Satisfies One Want, It Doubles And Trebles That Want Another Way. That Was A True Proverb Of The Wise Man, Rely Upon It; Better Is Little With The Fear Of The Lord, Than Great Treasure, And Trouble Therewith.

There Seem To Be But Three Ways For A Nation To Acquire Wealth. The First Is By War, As The Romans Did, In Plundering Their Conquered Neighbors. This Is Robbery. The Second By Commerce, Which Is Generally Cheating. The Third By Agriculture, The Only Honest Way, Wherein Man Receives A Real Increase Of The Seed Thrown Into The Ground, In A Kind Of Continual Miracle, Wrought By The Hand Of God In His Favor, As A Reward For His Innocent Life And His Virtuous Industry.

Every Pot Must Sit On Its Own Bottom.

He That Best Understands The World, Least Likes It

History Will Also Afford Frequent Opportunities Of Showing The Necessity Of A Public Religion, From Its Usefulness To The Public; The Advantage Of A Religious Character Among Private Persons; The Mischiefs Of Superstition, And The Excellency Of The Christian Religion Above All Others, Ancient Or Modern.

Those Who Give Up Their Liberty For More Security Neither Deserve Liberty Nor Security.

When Befriended, Remember It; When You Befriend, Forget It.

Laws Too Gentle Are Seldom Obeyed; Too Severe, Seldom Executed.

Thank God! We Are In The Full Enjoyment Of All These Privileges. But Can We Be Taught To Prize Them Too Much? Or How Can We Prize Them Equal To Their Value, If We Do Not Know Their Intrinsic Worth, And That They Are Not A Gift Bestowed Upon Us By Other Men, But A Right That Belongs To Us By The Laws Of God And Nature?

I Look Upon Death To Be As Necessary To Our Constitution As Sleep. We Shall Rise Refreshed In The Morning.

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Cold & Cunning Come From The North: But Cunning Sans Wisdom Is Nothing Worth.

Despair Ruins Some, Presumption Many.

You And I Were Long Friends: You Are Now My Enemy, And I Am Yours.

He'll Cheat Without Scruple, Who Can Without Fear.

Have You Something To Do To-morrow; Do It To-day.

Revelation, Indeed, As Such Had No Influence On My Mind

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There Are Three Things Extremely Hard: Steel, A Diamond, And To Know One's Self.

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A Fat Kitchin, A Lean Will.

...it Is Prodigious The Quantity Of Good That May Be Done By One Man If He Will Make A Business Of It.

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Use Now And Then A Little Exercise A Quarter Of An Hour Before Meals, As To Swing A Weight, Or Swing Your Arms About With A Small Weight In Each Hand; To Leap, Or The Like, For That Stirs The Muscles Of The Breast.

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Laziness Travels So Slowly That Poverty Soon Overtakes It.

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You May Give Give A Man Office, But You Cannot Give Him Discretion

As Pride Increases, Fortune Declines.

Money Makes Money. And The Money That Makes Money Makes More Money.

Freedom Of Speech Is The Great Bulwark Of Liberty; They Prosper And Die Together: And It Is The Terror Of Traitors And Oppressors, And A Barrier Against Them. It Produces Excellent Writers, And Encourages Men Of Fine Genius.

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We Hear Of The Conversion Of Water Into Wine At The Marriage In Cana As Of A Miracle. But This Conversion Is, Through The Goodness Of God, Made Every Day Before Our Eyes. Behold The Rain Which Descends From Heaven Upon Our Vineyards, And Which Incorporates Itself With The Grapes, To Be Changed Into Wine; A Constant Proof That God Loves Us, And Loves To See Us Happy.

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History Will Also Give Occasion To Expatiate On The Advantage Of Civil Orders And Constitutions; How Men And Their Properties Are Protected By Joining In Societies And Establishing Government; Their Industry Encouraged And Rewarded, Arts Invented, And Life Made More Comfortable; The Advantages Of Liberty, Mischiefs Of Licentiousness, Benefits Arising From Good Laws And A Due Execution Of Justice. Thus May The First Principles Of Sound Politics Be Fixed In The Minds Of Youth.

There Never Was A Good Knife Made Of Bad Steel.

Great Hopes Make Everything Great Possible

I Would Advise You To Read With A Pen In Your Hand And Enter In A Little Book Short Hints Of What You Feel That Is Common Or That May Be Useful; For This Will Be The Best Method Of Imprinting Such Portcullis In Your Memory.

Governments Having Failed The People, The People Are Entirely Justified In Assuming For Themselves An Essential Role In Government. Where A Government Takes Proper Measures To Protect The People Under Its Care, Such A Proceeding Might Have Been Thought Both Unnecessary And Unjustifiable: But Here It Is Quite The Reverse.

Pain Wastes The Body, Pleasures The Understanding.

I Firmly Believe This ... That Without His Concurring Aid We Shall Succeed In This Political Building No Better, Than The Builders Of Babel: We Shall Be Divided By Our Little Partial Local Interests; Our Projects Will Be Confounded, And We Ourselves Shall Become A Reproach And Bye Word Down To Future Ages. And What Is Worse, Mankind May Hereafter From This Unfortunate Instance, Despair Of Establishing Governments By Human Wisdom And Leave It To Chance, War And Conquest.

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Out Of Adversity Comes Opportunity.

Pride Is As Loud A Beggar As Want, And A Great Deal More Saucy. When You Have Bought One Fine Thing, You Must Buy Ten More, That Your Appearance May Be All Of A Piece; But It Is Easier To Suppress The First Desire Than To Satisfy All That Follow It.

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I Scarce Ever Heard Or Saw The Introductory Words, "without Vanity I May Say," Etc., But Some Vain Thing Immediately Followed.

How Few There Are Who Have Courage Enough To Own Their Faults, Or Resolution Enough To Mend Them.

If Your Riches Are Yours, Why Don't You Take Them With You To The Other World?

In Humility Imitate Jesus And Socrates.

If You Would Persuade, You Must Appeal To Interest Rather Than Intellect.

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Take Heed Of The Vinegar Of Sweet Wine, And The Anger Of Good-nature.

There Is No Gains Without Pain.

Fatigue Is The Best Pillow.

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The English Love An Insult. It's Their Only Test Of A Man's Sincerity.

Human Happiness Comes Not From Infrequent Pieces Of Good Fortune, But From The Small Improvements To Daily Life.

The Thrifty Maxim Of The Wary Dutch, Is To Save All The Money They Can Touch

When I See Nothing Annihilated, And Not Even A Drop Of Water Wasted, I Cannot Suspect The Annihilation Of Souls Thus Finding Myself To Exist In The World, I Believe I Shall, In Some Shape Or Other, Always Exist; With All The Inconveniences Human Life Is Liable To, I Shall Not Object To A New Edition Of Mine; Hoping, However, That The Errata Of The Last May Be Corrected.

Take The Money In Your Wallet And Invest It In Your Mind. And In Return, Your Mind Will Fill Up Your Wallet!

Truth And Sincerity Have A Certain Distinguishing Native Lustre About Them Which Cannot Be Perfectly Counterfeited; They Are Like Fire And Flame, That Cannot Be Painted.

When You Are In Debt, Then You Are A Slave.

He That Hath A Calling, Hath An Office Of Profit And Honor.

The Honest Man Takes Pains, And Then Enjoys Pleasures; The Knave Takes Pleasure, And Then Suffers Pains.

Who Is Strong? He That Can Conquer His Bad Habits.

Those Who Are Willing To Forfeit Liberty For Security Will Have Neither.

He Does Not Possess Wealth; It Possesses Him.

When Women Cease To Be Handsome, They Study To Be Good.

Do You Love Truth For Truth's Sake, And Will You Endeavor Impartially To Find And Receive It Yourself, And Communicate It To Others?

It Is The Duty Of Mankind On All Suitable Occasions To Acknowledge Their Dependence On The Divine Being.

The Expenses Required To Prevent A War Are Much Lighter Than Those That Will, If Not Prevented, Be Absolutely Necessary To Maintain It.

One Of The Advantages Of Being A 'reasonable Creature' Is That One Can Find A Reason For Whatever One Wants To Do.

Keep Conscience Clear, Then Never Fear.

Nor Eye In A Letter, Nor Hand In A Purse, Nor Ear In The Secret Of Another.

The Worst Wheel Of The Cart Makes The Most Noise.

People Want To Catch A Buzz. That Is Why Drugs Are Illegal, Yet People Still Try To Get Their Hands On Them No Matter What The Consequence. Drugs Make Us Happy, They May Not Be Healthy.

There Never Was A Good War, Or A Bad Peace.

He's A Fool That Makes His Doctor His Heir.

It Is The Will Of God And Nature That These Mortal Bodies Be Laid Aside, When The Soul Is To Enter Into Real Life; 'tis Rather An Embrio State, A Preparation For Living; A Man Is Not Completely Born Until He Be Dead: Why Then Should We Grieve That A New Child Is Born Among The Immortals?

Little Leaks Sink The Ship.

If All Printers Were Determined Not To Print Anything Till They Were Sure It Would Offend Nobody, There Would Be Very Little Printed.

I Believe ... That The Soul Of Man Is Immortal And Will Be Treated With Justice In Another Life, Respecting Its Conduct In This.

Admiration Is The Daughter Of Ignorance.

A Lonely Man On A Rainy Night Who Cannot Read.

A Republic, If You Can Keep It.

When You Are Good To Others, You Are Best To Yourself.

It Is A Bad Temper Of Mind That Takes Delight In Opposition.

Those Things That Hurt, Instruct.

Let Thy Discontents Be Thy Secrets

I Wish It (christianity) Were More Productive Of Good Works ... I Mean Real Good Works ... Not Holy Day Keeping, Sermon-hearing ... Or Making Long Prayers, Filled With Flatteries And Compliments Despised By Wise Men, And Much Less Capable Of Pleasing The Deity.

He Is Not Well Bred, That Cannot Bear Ill Breeding In Others

What More Valuable Than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.

Force Shites Upon Reason's Back.

It Is Better To Let 100 Criminals Go Free Than To Imprison 1 Innocent Man.

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Saying And Doing, Have Quarrel'd And Parted.

Saying And Doing

Twas Noah Who First Planted The Vine And Mended His Morals By Drinking Its Wine.

It's The Easiest Thing In The World For A Man To Deceive Himself.

Money Is Of A Prolific Generating Nature. Money Can Beget Money, And Its Offspring Can Beget More.

We Constantly Change The World, Even By Our Inaction. Therefore, Let Us Change It Responsibly.

Changing The World

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When Confronted With Two Courses Of Action I Jot Down On A Piece Of Paper All The Arguments In Favor Of Each One, Then On The Opposite Side I Write The Arguments Against Each One. Then By Weighing The Arguments Pro And Con And Cancelling Them Out, One Against The Other, I Take The Course Indicated By What Remains.

Remember That Credit Is Money.

That Man Alone Loves Himself Rightly Who Procures The Greatest Possible Good To Himself Through The Whole Of His Existence And So Pursues Pleasure As Not To Give For It More Than It Is Worth.

It Is Better To Take Many Injuries Than To Give One.

He That Steals The Old Man's Supper Does Him No Wrong.

Let No Pleasure Tempt Thee, No Profit Allure Thee, No Persuasion Move Thee, To Do Anything Which Thou Knowest To Be Evil; So Shalt Thou Always Live Jollity; For A Good Conscience Is A Continual Christmas.

Whether A Commonwealth Suffers More By Hypocritical Pretenders To Religion Or By The Openly Profane? The Most Dangerous Hypocrite In A Commonwealth Is One Who Leaves The Gospel For The Sake Of The Law. A Man Compounded Of Law And Gospel Is Able To Cheat A Whole Country With His Religion And Then Destroy Them Under Color Of Law.

No Nation Has Ever Been Ruined By Trade.

Life With Fools Consists In Drinking; With The Wise Man, Living's Thinking.

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On Second Thought, It's A Good Thing Love Is Blind Otherwise It Would See Too Much.

He That Cannot Obey, Cannot Command.

You Don't Get Somebody To Like You By Doing Them A Favor. That Only Tends To Build Resentment Over The Fact That They Are Needy And You Are Not. No, You Ask Them To Do You A Favor.

A Full Belly Brings Forth Every Evil.

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If You, Do What You Should Not, You Must Bear What You Would Not.

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Sell Not Virtue To Purchase Wealth, Nor Liberty To Purchase Power.

The Rapid Progress Of The Sciences Makes Me Sorry, At Times, That I Was Born So Soon. Imagine The Power That Man Will Have Over Matter, A Few Hundred Years From Now. We May Learn How To Remove Gravity From Large Masses, And Float Them Over Great Distances. Agriculture Will Double Its Produce With Less Labor. All Diseases Will Surely Be Cured... Even Old Age. If Only The Moral Sciences Could Be Improved As Well. Perhaps Men Would Cease To Be Wolves To One Another... And Human Beings Could Learn To Be Human.

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