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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Benjamin Franklin
Life, Change, Should Have
Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.2

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin
Business, Goal, Action
Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.5, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Benjamin Franklin
Nature, Food, Cooking
Poor Richard's Almanack (1734)

Beauty and folly are old companions.

Benjamin Franklin
Beauty, Liberty, Companion
Benjamin Franklin (2006). “Wisdom and Wit from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.63, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power.

Benjamin Franklin
Government, Enemy, Arbitrary
Benjamin Franklin (2007). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: 1706-1757”, p.80, Regnery Publishing

The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.

Benjamin Franklin
Religious, Jesus, Religion
"The British Millennial Harbinger". Book by John Wallis, 1856.

The used key is always bright.

Benjamin Franklin
Keys, Use, Poor Richard
Benjamin Franklin (1807). “Maxims and Morals from Dr. Franklin: Being Incitements to Industry, Frugality, and Prudence”, p.23

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees. Energy and persistence conquer all things. He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! Oh, it's easier to keep Holidays than Commandments. Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin
Holiday, Persistence, Doctors

There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead

Benjamin Franklin
Sleep, Time To Sleep, Plenty

Death is a fisherman, the world we see His fish-pond is, and we the fishes be; His net some general sickness; howe'er he Is not so kind as other fishers be; For if they take one of the smaller fry, They throw him in again, he shall not die: But death is sure to kill all he can get, And all is fish with him that comes to net.

Benjamin Franklin
Death, World, Ponds
Benjamin Franklin, “Death Is A Fisherman”

Men differ daily about things which are subject to sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible.

Benjamin Franklin
Men, Church, Invisible
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear.

Benjamin Franklin
Pride, Vans, Poor Richard
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.24, Nayika Publishing

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy

Benjamin Franklin
Pride, Want, Loud
Benjamin Franklin (1836). “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.100

Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and the moon to stand still - and they obeyed.

Benjamin Franklin
Moon, America, Sun

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

Benjamin Franklin
Men, Liberty, Thieves

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

Benjamin Franklin
Gratitude, Befriending, Remember
Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.27, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

Benjamin Franklin
Motivation, Two, Liberty
Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.253

Tolerate no Uncleanliness in Body, Clothes, or Habitation.

Benjamin Franklin
Clothes, Body, Tolerate
Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1850). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Published Verbatim from the Original Manuscript, by His Grandson, William Temple Franklin”, p.76

When in doubt, don't.

Benjamin Franklin
Doubt, Overcoming Doubt, When In Doubt

It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices and private interests: for regulating commerce an assembly of great men is the greatest fool on earth

Benjamin Franklin
Wisdom, Passion, Men

Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug.

Benjamin Franklin
Lying, Animal, Bugs
Letter to Georgiana Shipley, 26 Sept. 1772.

Philosophy as well as foppery often changes fashion.

Benjamin Franklin
Fashion, Philosophy, Wells
Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.65, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue. Wise and good men are in my opinion, the strength of the state; more so than riches or arms.

Benjamin Franklin
Wise, Thinking, Men
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

Thou can'st not joke an enemy into a friend, but thou may'st a friend into an enemy.

Benjamin Franklin
Enemy, May, Poor Richard
Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.50, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.

Benjamin Franklin
Enemy, Gains, Poor Richard
Benjamin Franklin (1849). “Poor Richard's almanac for 1850-52”, p.35

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