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191 quotes (Page 4 of 8 pages)If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
Desire
Benjamin Franklin
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If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
Money
Benjamin Franklin
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If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
Service
Benjamin Franklin
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If you would know the value of money try to borrow some.
Borrowing
Benjamin Franklin
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If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
Persuasion
Benjamin Franklin
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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.
Age and Aging
Benjamin Franklin
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If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with to the other world?
Riches
Benjamin Franklin
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In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Glutton
Benjamin Franklin
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In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
Faith
Benjamin Franklin
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In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Certainty
Benjamin Franklin
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Industry need not wish.
Wish and Wishing
Benjamin Franklin
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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.
Wealth
Benjamin Franklin
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It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
Habit
Benjamin Franklin
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It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.
Repentance
Benjamin Franklin
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It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
Desire
Benjamin Franklin
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It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Work
Benjamin Franklin
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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
Marriage
Benjamin Franklin
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Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Law and Lawyers
Benjamin Franklin
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Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
Laziness
Benjamin Franklin
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Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.
Learning
Benjamin Franklin
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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
Children
Benjamin Franklin
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Let thy discontents be thy secrets.
Discontent
Benjamin Franklin
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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late
Life and Living
Benjamin Franklin
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Love thy neighbor -- but don't pull down your hedge.
Neighbors
Benjamin Franklin
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Love well, whip well.
Parents and Parenting
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