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Eat to live, not live to eat.

Eat to live, not live to eat.

Benjamin Franklin
Mind Blowing, Delicious Food

...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.

Benjamin Franklin
Men, Done, May
Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.120

It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.

Benjamin Franklin
Ignorance, Tyranny Founding Fathers, Tyranny

Let each new year find you a better person.

Benjamin Franklin
New Year, Years, Old Year

Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native lustre about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame, that cannot be painted.

Benjamin Franklin
Truth, Fire, Flames
Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

Benjamin Franklin
Happiness, Inspiring, Graduation
"Dictionary of Thoughts". Book by Tryon Edwards, p. 22, 1908.

When circumstances don't fit our ideas they become our difficulties

Benjamin Franklin
Ideas, Fit, Circumstances

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

Benjamin Franklin
Faith, Spiritual, Religious
Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.16, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Benjamin Franklin
Inspirational, Motivational, Positive
Blaine McCormick, Benjamin Franklin (2005). “Ben Franklin: America's original entrepreneur : Franklin's autobiography adapted for modern times”, Entrepreneur Pr

We are all born without knowledge, but curious. With curiosity we should be able to learn as much as possible. With curiosity, it has to take a lot of work to remain ignorant.

Benjamin Franklin
Ignorant, Curiosity, Able

The problem with common sense is, it isn't.

Benjamin Franklin
Common Sense, Common, Problem

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

Benjamin Franklin
Inspirational, Life, Strength
Benjamin Franklin, Edmund Sears Morgan (2007). “Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin”, p.142, Yale University Press

Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Benjamin Franklin
Inspirational, Funny Motivational, Procrastination

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Benjamin Franklin
Friendship, Dog, Money
Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1738

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Benjamin Franklin
Time, Hate, Haste Makes Waste

To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.

Benjamin Franklin
Knowledge, Light, Proud
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.263, Barnes & Noble Publishing

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!

Benjamin Franklin
Christmas, Christian, Religion
Benjamin Franklin “Poor Richard Day by Day”, Lulu.com

Take a coin from your purse and invest it in your mind. It will come pouring out of your mind and overflow your purse.

Benjamin Franklin
Mind, Pouring, Coins

Time is money'... Waste it now. Pay for it later!

Benjamin Franklin
Pay, Waste, Time Is Money

Don't throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.

Benjamin Franklin
Glasses, Stones, Window
Benjamin Franklin “Poor Richard Day by Day”, Lulu.com

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

Benjamin Franklin
Politics, Poor Richard
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.36, Nayika Publishing

Nothing preaches better than the act.

Benjamin Franklin
Example, Action

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Benjamin Franklin
Motivational, Wisdom, Educational

You will discover 3 trustworthy mates, an aged wife, an aged canine, and ready dollars.

Benjamin Franklin
Wife, Dollars, Trustworthy

Among the numerous luxuries of the table...coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and the pleasing flow of spirits which it occasions...is never followed by sadness, languor or debility.

Benjamin Franklin
Coffee, Sadness, Luxury

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