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What good shall I do this day?

What good shall I do this day?

Benjamin Franklin
Democracy, This Day
Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.93

Mine is better than ours.

Benjamin Franklin
Mines
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.252, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Since they are our right, let us be vigilant to preserve them uninfringed, and free from encroachments. If animosities arise, and we should be obliged to resort to party, let each of us range himself on the side which unfurls the ensigns of public good. Faction will then vanish, which, if not timely suppressed, may overturn the balance, the palladium of liberty, and crush us under its ruins.

Benjamin Franklin
Crush, Party, Voting
Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1836). “Works: containing several political and historical tracts not included in any former edition ...”, p.281

Let thy discontents be thy secrets

Benjamin Franklin
Secret, Discontent
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.87, Barnes & Noble Publishing

A place for everything, everything in its place.

Benjamin Franklin
Reality, Effectiveness, Liberty

He that speaks ill of the mare will buy her.

Benjamin Franklin
Speak, Mares, Ill
Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.2, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

You have two choices, write about something of significance or do something someone wants to write about.

Benjamin Franklin
Writing, Two, Choices

Some men grow mad by studying much to know, But who grows mad by studying good to grow.

Benjamin Franklin
Knowledge, Science, Men
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.18, Barnes & Noble Publishing

If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds.

Benjamin Franklin
Men, Deeds, Praise
Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.63, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

He that's content hath enough.

Benjamin Franklin
Enough
Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.4, Courier Corporation

What signifies Philosophy that does not apply to some Use? May we not learn from hence, that black Clothes are not so fit to wear in a hot Sunny Climate or Season, as white ones; because in such Cloaths the Body is more heated by the Sun when we walk abroad, and are at the same time heated by the Exercise, which double Heat is apt to bring on putrid dangerous Fevers? The Soldiers and Seamen, who must march and labour in the Sun, should in the East or West Indies have an Uniform of white?

Benjamin Franklin
Philosophy, Exercise, West Indies
Benjamin Franklin (1806). “The Complete Works, in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Now First Collected and Arranged: with Memoirs of His Early Life, Written by Himself ; in Three Volumes”, p.109

He that resolves to mend hereafter, resolves not to mend now.

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

Quarrels never could last long, if on one side only lay the wrong.

Benjamin Franklin
Long, Justice, Lasts
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.91, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Don't halloo until you're out of the wood.

Benjamin Franklin
Patience, Woods

Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another.

Benjamin Franklin
Eye, Hands, Temptation
Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.14, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

Knowledge of the investment is most profitable

Benjamin Franklin
Investment, Profitable

We can defer, yet time is most certainly not.

Benjamin Franklin

No nation has ever been ruined by trade.

Benjamin Franklin
Trade, Ruined, Nations

A virtuous and industrious people may be cheaply governed.

Benjamin Franklin
People, May, Virtuous

The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit.

Benjamin Franklin
World, Merit, Pleasure

The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter.

Benjamin Franklin
Men, Inquiry, Matter

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Benjamin Franklin
Time, Hours, Minutes
Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.238

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

Benjamin Franklin
Faith, Men, Religion
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.3, Nayika Publishing

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

Benjamin Franklin
Deception, Thee, Deceived

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

Benjamin Franklin
Book, Hands, Littles
"The Art of Virtue: Ben Franklin's Formula for Successful Living".

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