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Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one.

Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one.

Benjamin Franklin
May, Faults, Suspicion
Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.74, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go.

Benjamin Franklin
Two, Doe, Hares
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.22, Nayika Publishing

Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures.

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

No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.

Benjamin Franklin
Savages, Our Society, Bears

Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor; but then the trade must be worked at and the calling followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes. If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while idleness and neglect increase them.

Benjamin Franklin
Life, Pain, Office

He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others

Benjamin Franklin
Bears, Breeding, Ill
Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.282, Oxford University Press, USA

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Benjamin Franklin
Peace, War, 4th Of July

A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was lost; for want of a horse, the battle was lost; for want of the battle, the war was lost.

Benjamin Franklin
Time, Horse, War

The best is the cheapest.

Benjamin Franklin
Quality

Beware the hobby that eats.

Benjamin Franklin
Food, Liberty, Hobbies

A bargain is something you have to find a use for once you have bought it.

Benjamin Franklin
Use, Bargains

[E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution has a Voice in Elections, and a share in the Government of the Country.

Benjamin Franklin
Country, Men, Land
Benjamin Franklin (1840). “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; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.131

We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.

Benjamin Franklin
Life, Giving, Advice
Benjamin Franklin (2013). “The Way to Wealth: Advice, Hints, and Tips on Business, Money, and Finance”, p.12, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running.

Benjamin Franklin
Wise, Running, Wisdom
Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.41, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his Foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, 'This is my Country.'

Benjamin Franklin
Love, Country, Knowledge
Benjamin Franklin's letter to David Hartley (December 4, 1789) as quoted in "The Writings of Benjamin Franklin," Volume 10 (p. 72) edited by Albert H. Smyth, 1907.

An old young man, will be a young old man.

Benjamin Franklin
Time, Men, Age
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.12, Nayika Publishing

After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.

Benjamin Franklin
Rain, 4th Of July, Men
Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1733

Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.

Benjamin Franklin
Love, Flesh Eating, Vegetarian

History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public; the advantage of a religious character among private persons; the mischiefs of superstition, and the excellency of the Christian religion above all others, ancient or modern.

Benjamin Franklin
Christian, Education, Religious
Benjamin Franklin (1844). “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; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.573

I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations of adult persons; bad habits and vices of the mind being, like diseases of the body, more easily prevented than cured. I think moreover, that talents for the education of youth are the gift of God; and that he on whom they are bestowed, whenever a way is opened for use of them, is as strongly called as if he heard a voice from heaven.

Benjamin Franklin
Education, Thinking, Voice
Benjamin Franklin (1838). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Ed., and Many Letters Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.48

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.

Benjamin Franklin
Night, Sloth, Laziness
Benjamin Franklin (1839). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.6

The borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.

Benjamin Franklin
Business, Debtors, Slave
Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.272, Oxford University Press, USA

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin
Death, Money, Business
Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy, 13 Nov. 1789

He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l.

Benjamin Franklin
Years, Extravagance
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.47, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Take time for all things.

Benjamin Franklin
Haste Makes Waste, Haste, Take Time

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