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You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them.

You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them.

Benjamin Franklin
Hands, Needs, Use

He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. - Ben Franklin

Benjamin Franklin
Blow, Self Control, Complaining

Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.

Benjamin Franklin
Wise, Wisdom, Identity
Benjamin Franklin (1904). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including the Private as Well as the Official and Scientific Correspondence Together with the Unmutilated and Correct Version of the Autobiography”

A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.

Benjamin Franklin
Happiness, Weather, Healthy

You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.

Benjamin Franklin
Friendship, Long, History
Mark Skousen, Benjamin Franklin (2005). “The Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.109, Regnery Publishing

The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy.

Benjamin Franklin
Light, Liberty, Sun
"The Wars of America: Or, A General History of All the Important Tragic Events that Have Occurred in the United States of North America, Since the Discovery of the Western Continent by Christopher Columbus". Book by Benjamin Eggleston, p. 156, 1839.

A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine.

Benjamin Franklin
Education, Country, Gold
Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.27, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action: and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life.

Benjamin Franklin
Men, Vanity, People
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

If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred before all other considerations, ought not men, in choosing a business either for themselves or children, to refuse such as are unwholesome for the body, and such as make a man too dependent, too much obliged to please others, and too much subjected to their humors in order to be recommended and get a livelihood?

Benjamin Franklin
Children, Men, Order
Benjamin Franklin “Poor Richard Day by Day”, Lulu.com

Certainlie these things agree, The Priest, the Lawyer, & Death all three: Death takes both the weak and the strong. The lawyer takes from both right and wrong, And the priest from living and dead has his Fee.

Benjamin Franklin
Death, Strong, Science
Poor Richard's Almanack, July 1737

God bless the King, and grant him long to Reign.

Benjamin Franklin
Kings, Long, Reign
Benjamin Franklin, Joseph A. Leo Lemay (1997). “Autobiography, Poor Richard, and later writings: letters from London, 1757-1775, Paris, 1776-1785, Philadelphia, 1785-1790, Poor Richard's almanack, 1733-1758, the autobiography”

Keep out of the Sight of Feasts and Banquets as much as may be; for 'tis more difficult to refrain good Cheer, when it's present, than from the Desire of it when it is away; the like you may observe in the Objects of all the other Senses.

Benjamin Franklin
Cheer, Sight, Desire
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.102, Barnes & Noble Publishing

By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable.

Benjamin Franklin
Patience, Two, Diligence
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.26, Barnes & Noble Publishing

The generous Mind least regards money, and yet most feels the Want of it.

Benjamin Franklin
Generosity, Mind, Want
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse

Benjamin Franklin
Pride, Dresses, Curse
Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.252, Printed for H. Colborn

A greater Quantity of some things may be eaten than of others, some being of lighter Digestion than others.

Benjamin Franklin
May, Digestion, Quantity
Benjamin Franklin (1839). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.39

Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have over those who are stationary, as the latter can not well improve their delivery of a sermon by so many rehearsals.

Benjamin Franklin
Voice, Pieces, Rehearsal
Benjamin Franklin (1818). “The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [Autobiography”, p.114

A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.

Benjamin Franklin
Mom, Pregnancy, Two
Poor Richard's Almanack (1734)

Grace thou thy house and let not that grace thee.

Benjamin Franklin
House, Grace, Virtue
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.68, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the rest.

Benjamin Franklin
Virtue, Providence

It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on

Benjamin Franklin
Silence, Goes On, Fool
Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.13, Courier Corporation

At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.

Benjamin Franklin
Food, Men, House
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.249

Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly. . . .

Benjamin Franklin
Life, Mean, Men
Benjamin Franklin (2006). “The Portable Benjamin Franklin”, p.93, Penguin

Gaining money by my industry and frugality, I lived very agreeably. . . .

Benjamin Franklin
Life, Frugality, Industry
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.39, Open Road Media

A fat kitchin, a lean Will.

Benjamin Franklin
Food, Science, Kitchen
Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.276, Oxford University Press, USA

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