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Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
Related topics: Wisdom
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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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
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- 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
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
One good Husband is worth two good Wives;
for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.
- 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
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- 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
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
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.
- Benjamin Franklin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- 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
Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
- Benjamin Franklin
There was never a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never has there been a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hunger is the best pickle.
- Benjamin Franklin
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
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