Benjamin Franklin

(206 votes)   When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

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

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(204 votes)   The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs of his neighbor.

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

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

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1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(183 votes)   They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent.

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(180 votes)   The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.

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1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(175 votes)   Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

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(174 votes)   The longer I live the more convinced I become that God governs in the affairs of men. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine we no longer need His assistance.

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(170 votes)   Diligence is the mother of good luck.

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(161 votes)   If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.

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(160 votes)   Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.

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1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(160 votes)   Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

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(159 votes)   He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

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(151 votes)   God helps those who help themselves.

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(151 votes)   Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

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(149 votes)   A little neglect may breed great mischief.

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1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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