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A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
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It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Benjamin Franklin
Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- Benjamin Franklin
What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
One good Husband is worth two good Wives;
for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.
- Benjamin Franklin
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
For want of a nail the shoe was lost;
for want of a shoe the horse was lost;
and for want of a horse the rider was lost.
- Benjamin Franklin
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin
Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never has there been a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
- Benjamin Franklin
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.
- Benjamin Franklin
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin
There was never a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
At twenty years of age the will reigns;
at thirty, the wit;
and at forty, the judgment.
- Benjamin Franklin
Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hunger is the best pickle.
- Benjamin Franklin
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate:
he who loves finds the door open.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant
Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Regret is an appalling waste of energy,
you can't build on it - it's only good for wallowing in.
- Katherine Mansfield
I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself,
I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you have only one smile in you,
give it to the people you love.
Don't be surly at home,
then go out in the street
and start grinning good morning
at total strangers.
- Maya Angelou
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
- John Wooden
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