Benjamin Franklin

(71 votes)   Half wits talk much, but say little.

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

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(70 votes)   Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

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

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(70 votes)   How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments

Benjamin Franklin

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(70 votes)   Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.

Benjamin Franklin

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(70 votes)   There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

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

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(69 votes)   Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have over those who are stationary, as the latter can not well improve their delivery of a sermon by so many rehearsals.

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

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(68 votes)   Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

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

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(68 votes)   Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin
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(68 votes)   You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.

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

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(67 votes)   He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.

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

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(65 votes)   Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

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1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(60 votes)   It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

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(59 votes)   So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

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1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(58 votes)   Nothing in life is certain except death and taxes

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(57 votes)   Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

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

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