Benjamin Franklin Quotes
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Creditors have better memories than debtors; they are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.
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Dally not with other Folks Women or Money.
[Advice]
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Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
[Diligence]
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Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
[Distrust]
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
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Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
[Anxiety]
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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
[Life]
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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
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Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
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Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
[Bed]
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Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
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Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
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Education begins with life. Before we are aware the foundations of character are laid, and subsequent teaching avails but little to remove or alter them.
[Education]
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Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
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Employ thy time well if thou meanest to gain leisure; and since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour. Leisure is time for doing something useful, and this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never, for a life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things.
[Leisure]
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Energy and persistence conquer all things.
[Enthusiasm]
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Ere you consult fancy, consult your purse.
[Economy]
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Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
[Peace]
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Experience keeps a dear school; but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true, we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.
[Experience]
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