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Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee.

Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee.

Benjamin Franklin
Business, 4th Of July, Advice
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.287, Barnes & Noble Publishing

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two works, industry and frugality.

Benjamin Franklin
Two, Desire, Way
Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Political, before the revolution”, p.245

Patience in Market, is worth Pounds in a year.

Benjamin Franklin
Years, Pounds
Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.14, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.

Benjamin Franklin
Priorities, Advice, Failing
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.68

Do well by doing good.

Benjamin Franklin
Doing Good, Wells
Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

Most people die at 25 but are buried at 75.

Benjamin Franklin
People, Buried, Dies

The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.

Benjamin Franklin
Prayer, Religion, Atheism

He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither.

Benjamin Franklin
Giving Up, Safety, Liberty

Dangerous, therefore, is it to take shelter under a tree, during a thunder-gust. It has been fatal to many, both men and beasts.

Benjamin Franklin
Men, Tree, Lightning
Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.37

Love your Neighbour; yet don't pull down your Hedge.

Benjamin Franklin
Love You, 4th Of July, Good Neighbor
Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanac and Other Writings”, p.132, Courier Corporation

Handle your tools without mittens.

Benjamin Franklin
Work, Mittens, Tools
Benjamin Franklin (1848). “The Way to Wealth”, p.3

If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But Money lost may be found; what we are robb'd of may be restored: The Treasure of Time once lost, can never be recovered; yet we squander it as tho' 'twere nothing worth, or we had no Use for it.

Benjamin Franklin
Time, Giving, Treasure
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.196, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Our necessities never equal our wants.

Benjamin Franklin
Want, Equal

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

Benjamin Franklin
Future, Vision, Amendments

Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others.

Benjamin Franklin
People, Enlightening, Blind
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private Families and of Common-wealths. Almost all Governments have therefore made it a principal Object of their Attention, to establish and endow with proper Revenues, such Seminaries of Learning, as might supply the succeeding Age with Men qualified to serve the Publick with Honour to themselves, and to their Country.

Benjamin Franklin
Education, Wise, Country
Benjamin Franklin (2006). “The Portable Benjamin Franklin”, p.190, Penguin

Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.

Benjamin Franklin
Men, Praying, Doing Good
Benjamin Franklin (2010). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Penn Reading Project Edition”, p.155, University of Pennsylvania Press

I believe that Man is not the most perfect Being but One, rather that as there are many Degrees of Beings his Inferiors, so there are many Degrees of Beings superior to him.

Benjamin Franklin
Believe, Men, Perfect
Source: www.foundingfatherquotes.com

He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.

Benjamin Franklin
Cities, Relaxation, Get Better
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it?

Benjamin Franklin
Freedom Of Speech, Abuse, Commit

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

Benjamin Franklin
Peace, War, May

Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.

Benjamin Franklin
History, Done, Historian
Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.278, Oxford University Press, USA

I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

Benjamin Franklin
Father, School, Son
Source: www.foundingfatherquotes.com

We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.

Benjamin Franklin
Gentleman, Atheism, Together

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Benjamin Franklin
Good Morning, Death, Sleep
Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow (2011). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself”, p.288, Cambridge University Press

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