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191 quotes (Page 5 of 8 pages)Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.
Enemies
Benjamin Franklin
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Lying rides upon debt's back.
Lies and Lying
Benjamin Franklin
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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Pleasure
Benjamin Franklin
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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
Age and Aging
Benjamin Franklin
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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
Death and Dying
Benjamin Franklin
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Most fools think they are only ignorant.
Fools and Foolishness
Benjamin Franklin
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Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones -- with ingratitude.
Gratitude
Benjamin Franklin
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Necessity never made a good bargain.
Necessity
Benjamin Franklin
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Never confuse motion with action.
Action
Benjamin Franklin
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Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Procrastination
Benjamin Franklin
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Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
Wives
Benjamin Franklin
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No nation was ever ruined by trade.
Economy and Economics
Benjamin Franklin
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Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.
Health
Benjamin Franklin
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Nothing preaches better than the act.
Example
Benjamin Franklin
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Observe all men, thyself most.
Self-observation
Benjamin Franklin
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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
Marriage
Benjamin Franklin
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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
Food and Eating
Benjamin Franklin
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One today is worth two tomorrows.
Present
Benjamin Franklin
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Our necessities never equal our wants.
Want
Benjamin Franklin
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Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
Opportunity
Benjamin Franklin
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Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
Pride
Benjamin Franklin
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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
Knowledge
Benjamin Franklin
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Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.
Enemies
Benjamin Franklin
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Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
Debt
Benjamin Franklin
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Read much, but not many books.
Books - Reading
Benjamin Franklin
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun