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Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted.

Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted.

Benjamin Franklin
Saying And Doing, Quarrels, Poor Richard
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.264, Barnes & Noble Publishing

As sore places meet most rubs, proud folks meet most affronts.

Benjamin Franklin
Proud, Folks, Poor Richard
Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.26, Courier Corporation

All cats look gray in the dark.

Benjamin Franklin
Cat, Dark, Looks

But they have two other Rights; those of sitting when they please, and as long as they please, in which methinks they have the advantage of your Parliament; for they cannot be dissolved by the Breath of a Minister, or sent packing as you were the other day, when it was your earnest desire to have remained longer together.

Benjamin Franklin
Two, Rights, Long
Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.150

Time is money, be a better you.

Benjamin Franklin
Time Is Money

I've striven my whole life for humility, but if I'd ever achieved it, I'd probably be pretty damn proud of that.

Benjamin Franklin
Humility, Proud, Damn

I believe ... that the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life, respecting its conduct in this.

Benjamin Franklin
Karma, Believe, Men
Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.131, Printed for H. Colborn

A policy of life insurance is the cheapest and safest mode of making a certain provision for one's family.

Benjamin Franklin
Provision, Certain, Policy

Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature.

Benjamin Franklin
Slavery, Human Nature, Humans
Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1840). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.515

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

Benjamin Franklin
Business, Mistake, Political
Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? I move that prayer imploring the assistance of Heaven be held every morning before we proceed to business.

Benjamin Franklin
Morning, Prayer, Moving

When religion is good, it will take care of itself. When it is not able to take care of itself, and God does not see fit to take care of it, so that it has to appeal to the civil power for support, it is evidence to my mind that its cause is a bad one.

Benjamin Franklin
Support, Presidential, Mind

Virtues, of ... Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty.

Benjamin Franklin
Justice, Benefits, Virtue
Benjamin Franklin, Alan Houston (2004). “Franklin: The Autobiography and Other Writings on Politics, Economics, and Virtue”, p.69, Cambridge University Press

Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.

Benjamin Franklin
Men, Thee, Poor Richard
Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.53, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

A man is not completely born until he is dead.

Benjamin Franklin
Sympathy, Death, Condolences
Benjamin Franklin (1838). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.113

Those who prefer security to liberty deserve neither.

Benjamin Franklin
Liberty, Environment, Security

It is very imprudent to deprive America of any of her privileges. If her commerce and friendship are of any importance to you, they are to be had on no other terms than leaving her in the full enjoyment of her rights.

Benjamin Franklin
Rights, America, Leaving
Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin, William Duane (1834). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.515

That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary for the Good of Mankind; and, that wise Governments have always thought Religion necessary for the well ordering and well-being of Society, and accordingly have been ever careful to encourage and protect the Ministers of it, paying them the highest publick Honours, that their Doctrines might thereby meet with the greater Respect among the common People.

Benjamin Franklin
Wise, Men, People

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

Benjamin Franklin
War, Arbitration, Opinion

Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature.

Benjamin Franklin
Nature, Money, Remember
"The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism". Book by Max Weber, 1905.

Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.

Benjamin Franklin
Water, Doe, Care
Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.282, Oxford University Press, USA

Let every one ascertain his special business and calling, and then stick to it if he wants to be successful.

Benjamin Franklin
Inspirational, Successful, Special

An iron rod being placed on the outside of a building from the highest part continued down into the moist earth, in any direction strait or crooked, following the form of the roof or other parts of the building, will receive the lightning at its upper end, attracting it so as to prevent it's striking any other part; and, affording it a good conveyance into the earth, will prevent its damaging any part of the building.

Benjamin Franklin
Science, Iron, Lightning
Benjamin Franklin, Edmund Sears Morgan (2007). “Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin”, p.119, Yale University Press

Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.

Benjamin Franklin
Charity, May, Hope And Faith
Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [Correspondence”, p.40

The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.

Benjamin Franklin
Men, History, Tests

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