Benjamin Franklin Quotes
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Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.
[Happiness]
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Happiness is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.
[One Day]
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Hast thou virtue? Acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue.
[Virtue]
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Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
[Being]
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He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
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He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.
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He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.
[Quarrels]
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He that can have patience can have what he will.
[Patience]
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He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
[Rest]
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He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
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He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
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He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
[Introspection]
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He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
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He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
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He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
[Business]
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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
[Hope]
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He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
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He that rises late must trot all day.
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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
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