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The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
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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
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
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- 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
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
One good Husband is worth two good Wives;
for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.
- Benjamin Franklin
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- 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
A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- 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
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never has there been 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
Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
- Benjamin Franklin
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
- Benjamin Franklin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.
- Benjamin Franklin
Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.
- Benjamin Franklin
There was never a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hunger is the best pickle.
- Benjamin Franklin
When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nobody has ever asked the nuclear family to live
all by itself in a box the way we do.
With no relatives, no support,
we've put it in an impossible situation.
- Margaret Mead
Resenting someone is a way of never leaving that person.
- Kare Anderson
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Humans are allergic to change.
They love to say, "We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
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