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Time is an herb that cures all Diseases.

Time is an herb that cures all Diseases.

Benjamin Franklin
Disease, Herbs, Cures
Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.46, Courier Corporation

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

Benjamin Franklin
Sea, Laziness, Virtue
Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.8, Courier Corporation

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Benjamin Franklin
Love, Marriage, Poor Richard
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.17, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Every pot must sit on its own bottom.

Benjamin Franklin
Relationship, Classroom, Pot

But the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses nor fine furniture.

Benjamin Franklin
Eye, Clothes, People
Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Louis Ketcham (2003). “The Political Thought of Benjamin Franklin”, p.368, Hackett Publishing

You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on.

Benjamin Franklin
Long, May, Concern
Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1882). “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”

Bad gains are true losses.

Benjamin Franklin
Loss, Gains
Benjamin Franklin (2006). “Wisdom and Wit from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.76, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

Eat few suppers, and you'll need few medicines.

Benjamin Franklin
Inspirational, Medicine, Needs
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

When Wine enters, out goes the Truth.

Benjamin Franklin
Wine, Poor Richard
Benjamin Franklin (2006). “Wisdom and Wit from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.46, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

Make use of your friends by being of use to them.

Benjamin Franklin
Friendship, Use

Spare when young, and spend when old.

Benjamin Franklin
Young, Spares
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.35, Nayika Publishing

Display is as false as it is costly.

Benjamin Franklin
Display

Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !

Benjamin Franklin
Girl, Ruins, Abstinence

If you'd lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money.

Benjamin Franklin
Money, Humorous, Visitors
Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.41, Courier Corporation

To cease to think creatively is to cease to live

Benjamin Franklin
Thinking, Cease

Where there is hunger, law is not regarded; and where law is not regarded, there will be hunger.

Benjamin Franklin
Law, Hunger
Benjamin Franklin (1999). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.35, Courier Corporation

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Benjamin Franklin
Inspirational, Life, Bible
Mark Skousen, Benjamin Franklin (2005). “The Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.124, Regnery Publishing

A penny saved is twopence dear; A pin a day 's a groat a year.

Benjamin Franklin
Years, Pennies, Pins

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

Benjamin Franklin
Spring, Toil, Ease
Benjamin Franklin (1820). “Poor Richard; or, The way to wealth”, p.11

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

Benjamin Franklin
Time, Tomorrow Never Comes, Faults
Benjamin Franklin (1945). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”

When passion rules, she never rules wisely.

Benjamin Franklin
Inspirational, Passion

Venison and venery defeated me.

Benjamin Franklin
Defeated, Venison

Applause waits on success.

Benjamin Franklin
Success, Congratulations, Reality

The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.

Benjamin Franklin
Men, Visitors, Busy
Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.283, Oxford University Press, USA

He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

Benjamin Franklin
Money, Debt By Founding Fathers, Awe Inspiring
Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.252, Printed for H. Colborn

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