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Look before, or you'll find yourself behind.

Look before, or you'll find yourself behind.

Benjamin Franklin
Future, Finding Yourself, Looks
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.28, Nayika Publishing

Pen, wax and parchment govern the world.

Benjamin Franklin
World, Pens

Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves from making hasty moves; and finally, we learn from chess the greatest maxim in life - that even when everything seems to be going badly for us we should not lose heart, but always hoping for a change for the better, steadfastly continue searching for the solutions to our problems.

Benjamin Franklin
Moving, Heart, Watches

When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off.

Benjamin Franklin
Years, Clothes, Pockets
Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1856). “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.90

Let the experiment be made.

Benjamin Franklin
Science, Made, Experiments
Benjamin Franklin, Edmund Sears Morgan (2007). “Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin”, p.113, Yale University Press

Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good.

Benjamin Franklin
Justice, Poor Richard
Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.282, Oxford University Press, USA

Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshipped.

Benjamin Franklin
Believe, Revolution Founding Fathers, Founding America
Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.241

The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach to his meat.

Benjamin Franklin
Men, Meat, Rich
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.27, Barnes & Noble Publishing

If you have something to do tomorrow, do it today.

Benjamin Franklin
Today, Tomorrow, Ifs

He that would fish, must venture his bait.

Benjamin Franklin
Bait, Fish Tanks, Venture

We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us while they afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge or in doing good to our fellow-creatures, is a kind of benevolent act of God. When they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain instead of pleasure, instead of an aid become an encumbrance and answer none of these intentions for which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we get rid of them. Death is that way.

Benjamin Franklin
Death, Pain, Way
Benjamin Franklin (1986). “The Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.246, Penguin

Setting too good an Example is a Kind of slander seldom forgiven.

Benjamin Franklin
Example, Kind, Slander
Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.80, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband.

Benjamin Franklin
Husband, Wife, May
Benjamin Franklin, E. Sargent (1855). “The select works of Benjamin Franklin”, p.406

Innocence is its own defense.

Benjamin Franklin
Defense, Innocence
James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

If you have no Honey in your Pot, have some in your Mouth.

Benjamin Franklin
Mouths, Honey, Pot
Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.33, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

Benjamin Franklin
Reading, Rainy Day, Pity

It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.

Benjamin Franklin
Money, Foolish, Repentance

Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.

Benjamin Franklin
Class, Widows, Firsts
James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.

Benjamin Franklin
Philosophy, Work, Cutting
Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.110, Open Road Media

In the dark, all cats are grey.

Benjamin Franklin
Cat, Dark, Mistress
Benjamin Franklin (1986). “The Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.204, Penguin

Never spare the parson's wine nor the baker's pudding

Benjamin Franklin
Wine, Bakers, Pudding
Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.42, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

I have so much faith in the general government of the world by Providence that I can hardly conceive a transaction of such momentous importance [as the framing of the Constitution] ... should be suffered to pass without being in some degree influenced, guided, and governed by that omnipotent, omnipresent, and beneficent Ruler in whom all inferior spirits live and move and have their being.

Benjamin Franklin
Moving, Government, Degrees

Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned is six, turned again it is seven and threepence, and so on, till it becomes a hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker. He that kills a breeding sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds.

Benjamin Franklin
Money, Might, Six
Benjamin Franklin (1855). “The select works of Benjamin Franklin”, p.360

Remember, that six pounds a year is but a groat a day.

Benjamin Franklin
Years, Six, Pounds
Benjamin Franklin (1839). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.37

Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body.

Benjamin Franklin
Country, Fire, Clothes

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