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Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
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]
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- 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
We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- 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
I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin
What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- 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
Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- Benjamin Franklin
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
One good Husband is worth two good Wives;
for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.
- Benjamin Franklin
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- 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
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
Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
- Benjamin Franklin
Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.
- Benjamin Franklin
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
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
At twenty years of age the will reigns;
at thirty, the wit;
and at forty, the judgment.
- Benjamin Franklin
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.
- Benjamin Franklin
There was never a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hunger is the best pickle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect,
and the absence of ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer.
The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy.
Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
- don Miguel Ruiz
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
If anyone is unhappy, remember that
his unhappiness is his own fault...
Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility
except our own opinion.
- Epictetus
When you feel worried and depressed,
consciously form a smile on your face and act upbeat
until the happy feeling becomes genuine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is unconditional love,
there is no room for unhappiness.
Whenever I look in the mirror today,
I will say to myself: "That Is The Face Of God."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
Go forth, and play joyfully in the garden of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we are not happy and joyous at this season,
for what other season shall we wait and
for what other time shall we look?
- Abdul-Baha
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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