Benjamin Franklin

(49 votes)   Time is money.

Benjamin Franklin
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(48 votes)   He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(47 votes)   Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(46 votes)   Drive your business, let not you're business drive you.

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(46 votes)   Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(46 votes)   Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.

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(45 votes)   A small leak can sink a great ship.

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(45 votes)   Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(45 votes)   While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

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(44 votes)   Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

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(43 votes)   If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

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(43 votes)   Most fools think they are only ignorant.

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(42 votes)   God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.

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(42 votes)   If we do not hang together, we will all hang separately.

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(42 votes)   Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

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1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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