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To Inquisitive Minds Like Yours And Mine The Reflection That The Quantity Of Human Knowledge Bears No Proportion To The Quantity Of Human Ignorance Must Be In One View Rather Pleasing, Viz., That Though We Are To Live Forever We May Be Continually Amused And Delighted With Learning Something New.

-Benjamin Franklin

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To Inquisitive Minds Like

Benjamin Franklin

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To Inquisitive Minds Like Yours And Mine The Reflection That The Quantity Of Human Knowledge Bears No Proportion To The Quantity Of Human Ignorance Must Be In One View Rather Pleasing, Viz., That Though We Are To Live Forever We May Be Continually Amused And Delighted With Learning Something New.

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Life's Tragedy Is That We Get Old Too Soon And Wise Too Late.

If I Could See One Live Show Before I Died, I'd See Lucy Angel

In Rivers And Bad Governments The Lightest Things Swim At Top.

If You Would Have A Faithful Servant, And One That You Like, Serve Yourself.

Faithful Servants

Covetousness Is Ever Attended With Solicitude And Anxiety.

Life Is A Kind Of Chess.

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.

Lose No Time; Be Always Employed In Something Useful.

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Let Me Resolve To Be Virtuous, That I May Be Happy, That I May Please Him, Who Is Delighted To See Me Happy. Amen.

Where There's Marriage Without Love, There Will Be Love Without Marriage.

Passion Governs, And She Never Governs Wisely.

From A Child I Was Fond Of Reading, And All The Little Money That Came Into My Hands Was Ever Laid Out In Books.

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.

Would Thou Confound Thy Enemy, Be Good Thyself.

It Was Said Of Him That He Did Not Say Much, But That When He Did Everyone Stopped To Listen.

It Takes Many Good Deeds To Build A Good Reputation, And Only One Bad One To Lose It.

The Things Which Hurt, Instruct.

Where Security Exists, Liberty And Opportunity Do Not.

Trouble Knocked At The Door, But, Hearing Laughter, Hurried Away

Use No Hurtful Deceit; Think Innocently And Justly And, If You Speak, Speak Accordingly.

After Getting The First Hundred Pounds, It Is More Easy To Get The Second.

Be In General Virtuous, And You Will Be Happy.

By The Word Simplicity, Is Not Always Meant Folly Or Ignorance; But Often, Pure And Upright Nature, Free From Artifice, Craft Or Deceitful Ornament.

The Worst Wheel Of The Cart Makes The Most Noise.

I Have Lived, Sir, A Long Time And 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? We Have Been Assured, Sir, In The Sacred Writings That "except The Lord Build They Labor In Vain That Build It." I Firmly Believe This; And I Also Believe That Without His Concurring Aid We Shall Succeed In This Political Building No Better Than The Builders Of Babel

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.

Freedom Of Speech

Who Judges Best Of A Man, His Enemies Or Himself?

To All Apparent Beauties Blind, Each Blemish Strikes An Envious Mind.

Great Talkers Are Little Doers.

I Saw Few Die Of Hunger; Of Eating, A Hundred Thousand.

I Resolve To Speak Ill Of No Man Whatever, Not Even In A Matter Of Truth; But Rather By Some Means Excuse The Faults I Hear Charged Upon Others, And Upon Proper Occasions Speak All The Good I Know Of Everybody.

For Over 1,700 Years, The Jews Have Been Bewailing Their Sad Fate In That They Have Been Exiled From Their Homeland, As They Call Palestine. But Gentlemen, Did The World Give It To Them In Fee Simple, They Would At Once Find Some Reason For Not Returning. Why? Because They Are Vampires, And Vampires Do Not Live On Vampires. They Cannot Live Only Among Themselves. They Must Subsist On Christians And Other People Not Of Their Race.

If You Know How To Spend Less Than You Get, You Have The Philosopher's Stone.

If You Want To Be Loved, Love And Be Loveable.

By My Rambling Digressions I Perceive Myself To Be Growing Old.

Love Your Neighbour; Yet Don't Pull Down Your Hedge.

Applause Waits On Success.

Congratulations

Virtue And Happiness Are Mother And Daughter.

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

None Are Deceived But They That Confide.

Most Men Die At 25, We Just Don't Bury Them Until They Are 70.

Speak With Contempt Of None, From Slave To King, The Meanest Bee Hath, And Will Use, A Sting.

...till We Are Uneasy In Rest, We Can Have No Desire To Move, And Without Desire Of Moving There Can Be No Voluntary Motion.

When Religion Is Good, It Will Take Care Of Itself. When It Is Not Able To Take Care Of Itself, And God Does Not See Fit To Take Care Of It, So That It Has To Appeal To The Civil Power For Support, It Is Evidence To My Mind That Its Cause Is A Bad One.

I Believe There Is One Supreme Most Perfect Being. [...] I Believe He Is Pleased And Delights In The Happiness Of Those He Has Created; And Since Without Virtue Man Can Have No Happiness In This World, I Firmly Believe He Delights To See Me Virtuous.

One Mend-fault Is Worth Two Find-faults, But One Find-fault Is Better Than Two Make-faults.

Since Thou Are Not Sure Of A Minute, Throw Not Away An Hour.

All Who Think Cannot But See There Is A Sanction Like That Of Religion Which Binds Us In Partnership In The Serious Work Of The World.

They That Can Give Up Essential Liberty To Purchase A Little Temporary Safety, Deserve Neither Liberty Nor Safety.

Security And Freedom

Leisure Is The Time For Doing Something Useful.

But Our Great Security Lies, I Think, In Our Growing Strength.

Be Temperate In Wine, In Eating, Girls, & Sloth; Or The Gout Will Seize You And Plague You Both.

This Gave Me Occasion To Observe, That When Men Are Employ'd They Are Best Contented. For On The Days They Work'd They Were Good-natur'd And Chearful; And With The Consciousness Of Having Done A Good Days Work They Spent The Evenings Jollily; But On The Idle Days They Were Mutinous And Quarrelsome, Finding Fault With Their Pork, The Bread, And In Continual Ill-humour. (autobiography, 1771)

Take One Thing With Another, And The World Is A Pretty Good Sort Of A World, And It Is Our Duty To Make The Best Of It, And Be Thankful.

Time Is Money, Be A Better You.

Be Ashamed To Catch Yourself Idle.

The Way To See By Faith Is To Shut The Eye Of Reason: The Morning Daylight Appears Plainer When You Put Out Your Candle.

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

Life Is Rather A State Of Embryo, A Preparation For Life; A Man Is Not Completely Born Till He Has Passed Through Death.

It Might Be Judged An Affront To Your Understanding Should I Go About To Prove This First Principle; The Existence Of A Diety And That He Is The Creator Of The Universe, For That Would Suppose You Ignorant Of What All Mankind In All Ages Have Agreed In.

Vice Knows She Is Ugly, So Puts On Her Mask.

If You Want To Be Rich, Think Of The Savings And Get Them.

Silence Is Not Always A Sign Of Wisdom, But Babbling Is Ever A Mark Of Folly.

The U. S. Constitution Doesn't Guarantee Happiness, Only The Pursuit Of It. You Have To Catch Up With It Yourself.

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

He's A Fool Who Cannot Conceal His Wisdom.

If We Lose Our Money, It Gives Us Some Concern. If We Are Cheated Or Robb'd Of It, We Are Angry: But Money Lost May Be Found; What We Are Robb'd Of May Be Restored: The Treasure Of Time Once Lost, Can Never Be Recovered; Yet We Squander It As Tho' 'twere Nothing Worth, Or We Had No Use For It.

A Man Must Have A Good Deal Of Vanity Who Believes, And A Good Deal Of Boldness Who Affirms, That All The Doctrines He Holds Are True, And All He Rejects Are False.

A Quarrelsome Man Has No Good Neighbours.

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

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Blessed Is He That Expects Nothing, For He Shall Never Be Disappointed. Expect Nothing - Get Nothing! But Expect Something - Get Something!!

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Everybody's Human-everybody Makes Mistakes. If You Laugh It Off And Keep Going And Try To Give It Your Best The Next Time Around, People Respect That.

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Keep Flax From Fire, And Youth From Gaming.

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

Hope And Faith May Be More Firmly Built Upon Charity, Than Charity Upon Faith And Hope.

Without Justice, Courage Is Weak.

But The Most Dangerous Hypocrite In A Common-wealth, 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 Colour Of Law: And Here The Clergy Are In Great Danger Of Being Deceiv'd, And The People Of Being Deceiv'd By The Clergy, Until The Monster Arrives To Such Power And Wealth, That He Is Out Of The Reach Of Both, And Can Oppress The People Without Their Own Blind Assistance.

You Have On Hand Those Things That You Need If You Have But The Wit And Wisdom To Use Them.

A Long Life May Not Be Good Enough, But A Good Life Is Long Enough.

We Are Spirits. That Bodies Should Be Lent Us While They Afford Us Pleasure, Assist Us In Acquiring Knowledge Or In Doing Good To Our Fellow-creatures, Is A Kind Of Benevolent Act Of God. When They Become Unfit For These Purposes And Afford Us Pain Instead Of Pleasure, Instead Of An Aid Become An Encumbrance And Answer None Of These Intentions For Which They Were Given, It Is Equally Kind And Benevolent That A Way Is Provided By Which We Get Rid Of Them. Death Is That Way.

Reading Makes A Full Man, Meditation A Profound Man, Discourse A Clear Man.

When Wine Enters, Out Goes The Truth.

There Are No Ugly Loves Nor Handsome Prisons.

A Good Spouse And Health Is A Person's Best Wealth.

Pride Is Said To Be The Last Vice The Good Man Gets Clear Of.

A Temperate Diet Frees From Diseases; Such Are Seldom Ill, But If They Are Surprised With Sickness, They Bear It Better, And Recover Sooner; For Most Distempers Have Their Original From Repletion.

Vice Knows [its] Ugly, So [it] Puts On [a] Mask.

Friends Are The True Sceptres Of Princes.

Moses Lifting Up His Wand, And Dividing The Red Sea, And Pharaoh In His Chariot Overwhelmed With The Waters. This Motto: "rebellion To Tyrants Is Obedience To God."

He That Pays For Work Before It's Done, Has But A Pennyworth For Two Pence.

If We Can Sleep Without Dreaming, It Is Well That Painful Dreams Are Avoided. If, While We Sleep, We Can Have Any Pleasing Dreams, It Is As The French Say, Tant Gagne, So Much Added To The Pleasure Of Life.

A Word To The Wise Is Enough, And Many Words Won't Fill A Bushel.

The Generous Mind Least Regards Money, And Yet Most Feels The Want Of It.

And Where Is The Prince Who Can Afford To So Cover His Country With Troops For Its Defense, As That Ten Thousand Men Descending From The Clouds, Might Not In Many Places Do An Infinite Deal Of Mischief, Before A Force Could Be Brought Together To Repel Them?

Perhaps The History Of The Errors Of Mankind, All Things Considered, Is More Valuable And Interesting Than That Of Their Discoveries. Truth Is Uniform And Narrow; It Constantly Exists, And Does Not Seem To Require So Much An Active Energy, As A Passive Aptitude Of The Soul In Order To Encounter It. But Error Is Endlessly Diversified; It Has No Reality, But Is The Pure And Simple Creation Of The Mind That Invents It. In This Field The Soul Has Room Enough To Expand Herself, To Display All Her Boundless Faculties, And All Her Beautiful And Interesting Extravagancies And Absurdities.

When You're Testing To See How Deep Water Is, Never Use Two Feet.

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.

Keep Your Eyes Wide Open Before Marriage, Half Shut Afterwards.

The Moral And Religious System Which Jesus Christ Transmitted To Us Is The Best The World Has Ever Seen, Or Can See.

The Nearest I Can Make It Out, "love Your Enemies" Means, "hate Your Friends"

Don't Cry Over Spilled Milk

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

Beer Is Proof That God Wants Us To Be Happy

Pride That Dines On Vanity, Sups On Contempt.

A True Friend Is The Greatest Possesion.

A Little Neglect May Breed Great Mischief. ... For Want Of A Nail, The Shoe Was Lost; For Want Of A Shoe, The Horse Was Lost; For Want Of A Horse, The Battle Was Lost; For Want Of The Battle, The War Was Lost.

The Best Is The Cheapest.

The Eye Of The Master Will Do More Work Than Both His Hands.

Prayers And Provender Hinder No Journey.

Order - Let All Your Things Have Their Places; Let Each Part Of Your Business Have Its Time.

Moral Perfection

So Much For Industry, My Friends, And Attention To One's Own Business; But To These We Must Add Frugality If We Would Make Our Industry More Certainly Successful. A Man May, If He Knows Not How To Save As He Gets, Keep His Nose All His Life To The Grindstone, And Die Not Worth A Grout At Last.

He's The Best Physician That Knows The Worthlessness Of Most Medicines.

If By The Liberty Of The Press Were Understood Merely The Liberty Of Discussing The Propriety Of Public Measures And Political Opinions, Let Us Have As Much Of It As You Please: But If It Means The Liberty Of Affronting, Calumniating And Defaming One Another, I, For My Part, Own Myself Willing To Part With My Share Of It, Whenever Our Legislators Shall Please So To Alter The Law And Shall Chearfully Consent To Exchange My Liberty Of Abusing Others For The Privilege Of Not Being Abused Myself.

Political Opinions

The Best Investment Is In The Tools Of One's Own Trade.

To Be Proud Of Knowledge Is To Be Blind With Light.

Three May Keep A Secret, If Two Of Them Are Dead.

Poverty Often Deprives A Man Of All Spirit And Virtue; It Is Hard For An Empty Bag To Stand Upright.

You Can't Tell Anyone Anything. You Have To Teach People For Them To Remember. Let The Person Experience What You Are Teaching And They Will Learn.

The Two Most Beautiful Sights I Have Witnessed In My Life Are A Full Blown Ship At Sail And The Round-bellied Pregnant Female.

Little Rogues Easily Become Great Ones.

We May Perhaps Learn To Deprive Large Masses Of Their Gravity And Give Them Absolute Levity, For The Sake Of Easy Transport.

Those Who In Quarrels Interpose, Must Often Wipe A Bloody Nose.

If You Can't Pay For A Thing, Don't Buy It. If You Can't Get Paid For It, Don't Sell It.

Before Noah, Men Having Only Water To Drink, Could Not Find The Truth. Accordingly...they Became Abominably Wicked, And They Were Justly Exterminated By The Water They Loved To Drink. This Good Man, Noah, Having Seen That All His Contemporaries Had Perished By This Unpleasant Drink, Took A Dislike To It; And God, To Relieve His Dryness, Created The Vine And Revealed To Him The Art Of Making Le Vin. By The Aid Of This Liquid He Unveiled More And More Truth.

Women Are Books, And Men The Readers Be.

Early To Bed And Early To Rise Makes A Man Healthy, Wealthy And Wise.

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

Many Complain Of Their Memory, Few Of Their Judgment.

The Second Vice Is Lying, The First Is Running In Debt.

An Honest Man Will Receive Neither Money Nor Praise That Is Not His Due.

Trusting Too Much To Others Care Is The Ruin Of Many.

We Must, Indeed, All Hang Together Or, Most Assuredly, We Shall All Hang Separately.

He That Takes A Wife, Takes Care

Love And Marriage

Do Not Let Fancy Outrun Your Means.

Be Studious In Your Profession, And You Will Be Learned. Be Industrious And Frugal, And You Will Be Rich. Be Sober And Temperate, And You Will Be Healthy. Be In General Virtuous, And You Will Be Happy.

We Are Not So Sensible Of The Greatest Health As Of The Least Sickness.

Ill Customs And Bad Advice Are Seldom Forgotten.

I Wish To Live Without Committing Any Fault At Any Time.

Moral Perfection

If You Wou'd Be Reveng'd Of Your Enemy, Govern Your Self

A New Truth Is A Truth, An Old Error Is An Error.

Words May Show A Man's Wit But Actions His Meaning.

If You Want To Make A Friend, Let Someone Do You A Favor.

It Is Ill-manners To Silence A Fool And Cruelty To Let Him Go On

It Is The First Responsibility Of Every Citizen To Question Authority.

Indeed The General Natural Tendency Of Reading Good History, Must Be, To Fix In The Minds Of Youth Deep Impressions Of The Beauty And Usefulness Of Virtue Of All Kinds, Publick Spirit, Fortitude.

Lend Money To An Enemy, And Thou Will Gain Him, To A Friend And Thou Will Lose Him.

Since I Cannot Govern My Own Tongue, Though Within My Own Teeth, How Can I Hope To Govern The Tongue Of Others?

The Best Thing To Give To Your Enemy Is Forgiveness; To An Opponent, Tolerance; To A Friend, Your Heart; To Your Child, A Good Example; To A Father, Deference; To Your Mother, Conduct That Will Make Her Proud Of You; To Yourself, Respect; To All Others, Charity.

When The Well Is Dry, We Know The Worth Of Water.

Wine Is Constant Proof That God Loves Us And Likes To See Us Happy.

When You Incline To Have New Clothes, Look First Well Over The Old Ones, And See If You Cannot Shift With Them Another Year, Either By Scouring, Mending, Or Even Patching If Necessary. Remember, A Patch On Your Coat, And Money In Your Pocket, Is Better And More Creditable, Than A Writ On Your Back, And No Money To Take It Off.

He That Pursues Two Hares At Once, Does Not Catch One And Lets The Other Go.

Grievances Cannot Be Redressed Until They Are Known; And They Cannot Be Known But Through Complaints And Petitions. If These Are Deemed Affronts, And The Messengers Punished As Offenders, Who Will Henceforth Send Petitions? And Who Will Deliver Them? Wise Governments Encouraged The Airing Of Grievances, Even Those That Were Lightly Founded Foolish Governments Did The Opposite - To Their Peril. Where Complaining Is A Crime, Hope Becomes Despair.

Chess Teaches Foresight, By Having To Plan Ahead; Vigilance, By Having To Keep Watch Over The Whole Chess Board; Caution, By Having To Restrain Ourselves From Making Hasty Moves; And Finally, We Learn From Chess The Greatest Maxim In Life - That Even When Everything Seems To Be Going Badly For Us We Should Not Lose Heart, But Always Hoping For A Change For The Better, Steadfastly Continue Searching For The Solutions To Our Problems.

Experience Is The Best Teacher, But A Fool Will Learn From No Other.

By Heaven We Understand A State Of Happiness Infinite In Degree, And Endless In Duration.

Man Is A Tool-making Animal

You Can Not Pluck Roses Without Fear Of Thorns, Nor Enjoy A Fair Wife Without Danger Of Horns.

Behold The Rain Which Descends From Heaven Upon Our Vineyards; There It Enters The Roots Of The Vines, To Be Changed Into Wine; A Constant Proof That God Loves Us, And Loves To See Us Happy.

I Know Not Which Lives More Unnatural Lives, Obeying Husbands, Or Commanding Wives.

Happiness Depends More On The Inward Disposition Of Mind Than On Outward Circumstances.

Creditors Are A Superstitious Sect, Great Observers Of Set Days And Times.

Carelessness Does More Harm Than A Want Of Knowledge.

Cheese And Salt Meat, Should Be Sparingly Eat.

He Who Is In Love With Himself Has No Rivals.

A Cheerful Face Is Nearly As Good For An Invalid As Healthy Weather.

A Little House Well Fill'd, A Little Field Well Till'd, And A Little Wife Well Will'd, Are Great Riches.

Ambition Has Its Disappointments To Sour Us, But Never The Good Fortune To Satisfy Us.

What Signifies Philosophy That Does Not Apply To Some Use? May We Not Learn From Hence, That Black Clothes Are Not So Fit To Wear In A Hot Sunny Climate Or Season, As White Ones; Because In Such Cloaths The Body Is More Heated By The Sun When We Walk Abroad, And Are At The Same Time Heated By The Exercise, Which Double Heat Is Apt To Bring On Putrid Dangerous Fevers? The Soldiers And Seamen, Who Must March And Labour In The Sun, Should In The East Or West Indies Have An Uniform Of White?

'tis His Honesty That Brought Upon Him The Character Of A Heretic.

The Things Of This World Take Up Too Much Of My Time, Of Which Indeed I Have Too Little Left, To Undertake Anything Like A Reformation In Religion.

A Little Sturdiness When Superiors Are Much In The Wrong Sometimes Occasions Consideration. And There Is Truth In The Old Saying That If You Make Yourself A Sheep, The Wolves Will Eat You.

Not To Oversee Workmen Is To Leave Them Your Purse Open.

History Affords Us Many Instances Of The Ruin Of States, By The Prosecution Of Measures Ill Suited To The Temper And Genius Of Their People. The Ordaining Of Laws In Favor Of One Part Of The Nation, To The Prejudice And Oppression Of Another, Is Certainly The Most Erroneous And Mistaken Policy. ... These Measures Never Fail To Create Great And Violent Jealousies And Animosities Between The People Favored And The People Oppressed; Whence A Total Separation Of Affections, Interests, Political Obligations, And All Manner Of Connections, By Which The Whole State Is Weakened.

Don't Throw Stones At Your Neighbors, If Your Own Windows Are Glass.

Virtue Alone Is Sufficient To Make A Man Great, Glorious, And Happy.

Women And Wine, Game And Deceit, Make The Wealth Small, And The Want Great

Take A Coin From Your Purse And Invest It In Your Mind. It Will Come Pouring Out Of Your Mind And Overflow Your Purse.

As To Jesus Of Nazareth, My Opinion Of Whom You Particularly Desire, I Think The System Of Morals And His Religion, As He Left Them To Us, The Best The World Ever Saw Or Is Likely To See; But I Apprehend It Has Received Various Corrupting Changes; And I Have, With Most Of The Present Dissenters In England, Some Doubts As To His Divinity.

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