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Joy doesn't exist in the world, it exists in us.

Joy doesn't exist in the world, it exists in us.

Benjamin Franklin
Joy, World

The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing.

Benjamin Franklin
Mistake, Men, Doe

A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin
Education, Wisdom, Freedom

Lost time is never found again.

Benjamin Franklin
Motivational, Positive, Time
Benjamin Franklin (1821). “Essays and Letters”, p.80

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Benjamin Franklin
Courage, Faults, Enough
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.23, Nayika Publishing

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

Benjamin Franklin
Book, Reading, Liberty
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

whatever you become be good at it

Benjamin Franklin
Inspirational, Be Good

A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth.

Benjamin Franklin
Humanity, Wealth, Spouse

For over 1,700 years, the Jews have been bewailing their sad fate in that they have been exiled from their homeland, as they call Palestine. But gentlemen, did the world give it to them in fee simple, they would at once find some reason for not returning. Why? Because they are vampires, and vampires do not live on vampires. They cannot live only among themselves. They must subsist on Christians and other people not of their race.

Benjamin Franklin
Christian, Fate, Simple
Misattributed to Benjamin Franklin. "The Franklin Prophecy: An Anti-Semitic Hoax Gets New Life on the Internet" by Jeffrey Belodoff and Elyce Milette, www.jewishpost.com.

One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts.

Benjamin Franklin
Beautiful, Interesting, Tragedy

People are best convinced by things they themselves discover.

Benjamin Franklin
Business, People, Motivational Business

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

Benjamin Franklin
Freedom, Men, Doe
Benjamin Franklin (2017). “The Complete Works of Benjamin Franklin: Letters and Papers on Electricity, Philosophical Subjects, General Politics, Moral Subjects & the Economy, American Subjects Before & During the Revolution”, p.812, Madison & Adams

A good example is the best sermon.

Benjamin Franklin
Inspirational, 4th Of July, Example
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

There are no ugly loves nor handsome prisons.

Benjamin Franklin
Attitude, Ugly, Handsome
Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.277, Oxford University Press, USA

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Benjamin Franklin
Life, 4th Of July, Safety
sir John Barnard, Benjamin Franklin (1848). “A present for an apprentice [by sir J. Barnard]. To which is added, Franklin's Way to wealth. [Ed.] by a citizen of London [T. Tegg].”, p.288

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

Benjamin Franklin
Liberty, Doe, Wealth
Poor Richard's Almanack, Oct. 1734

I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings that "except the Lord build they labor in vain that build it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel

Benjamin Franklin
Fall, Believe, Writing
Constitutional Convention Address on Prayer, delivered Thursday, June 28, 1787, Philadelphia, PA

A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.

Benjamin Franklin
Truth, Honesty, Lying
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.

Benjamin Franklin
Dream, Inspirational Life, Men

He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.

Benjamin Franklin
Funny, Doctors, Stupidity
Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.12, Courier Corporation

Those who laugh often never grow old.

Benjamin Franklin
Laughing, Laugh Often, Grows

To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

Benjamin Franklin
Humble, Humility, Modesty
Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.68, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

Speak little, do much.

Benjamin Franklin
Inspirational, Littles, Action
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.244, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin
Happiness, Men, Liberty
Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.4, Courier Corporation

The rapid progress of the sciences makes me sorry, at times, that I was born so soon. Imagine the power that man will have over matter, a few hundred years from now. We may learn how to remove gravity from large masses, and float them over great distances. Agriculture will double its produce with less labor. All diseases will surely be cured... even old age. If only the moral sciences could be improved as well. Perhaps men would cease to be wolves to one another... and human beings could learn to be human.

Benjamin Franklin
Sorry, Distance, Men

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