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Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without clothing, principles, morals or manners.

Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without clothing, principles, morals or manners.

Benjamin Franklin
Children, Garden, Evil

Don't cry over spilled milk

Benjamin Franklin
Moving On, Yogurt, Milk

As Pride increases, Fortune declines.

Benjamin Franklin
Pride, Increase, Decline
Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.26, Courier Corporation

Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge.

Benjamin Franklin
Doe, Want, Harm

If the elbow had been placed closer to the hand, the forearm would have been too short to bring the glass to the mouth; and if it had been closer to the shoulder, the forearm would have been so long that it would have carried the glass beyond the mouth.

Benjamin Franklin
Food, Glasses, Hands

Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.

Benjamin Franklin
Honesty, Vices, Gains
Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.18, Courier Corporation

No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.

Benjamin Franklin
Common, Wealth, Virtuous
Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.279, Oxford University Press, USA

The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch

Benjamin Franklin
Dutch, Thrifty, Poor Richard
Benjamin Franklin (1849). “Poor Richard's almanac for 1850-52”, p.36

An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught.

Benjamin Franklin
Taught, Pounds, Wit
Benjamin Franklin “Poor Richard Day by Day”, Lulu.com

A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches.

Benjamin Franklin
Wife, House, Littles
Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.10, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Whether a Commonwealth suffers more by hypocritical pretenders to religion or by the openly profane? The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law.

Benjamin Franklin
Country, Hypocrite, Men

All cats are gray in the dark.

Benjamin Franklin
Cat, Dark, Gray

Evil, as evil, can never be chosen; and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good.

Benjamin Franklin
Evil, Choices, Desire
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.238

Fiction or fable allures to instruction.

Benjamin Franklin
Fiction, Fables, Instruction

Do not let fancy outrun your means.

Benjamin Franklin
Mean, Fancy, Outrun

Many have been ruined by buying good Pennyworths.

Benjamin Franklin
Buying, Economy, Ruined
Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Political, before the revolution”, p.240

Men's minds do not die with their bodies but are made more happy or miserable after this life according to their actions.

Benjamin Franklin
Karma, Men, Mind
Benjamin Franklin (2002). “Silence Dogood, the Busy-Body, and Early Writings: Boston and London, 1722-1726, Philadelphia, 1726-1757, London, 1757-1775”

Oh the wonderful knowledge to be found in the stars. Even the smallest things are written there ... if you had but skill to read.

Benjamin Franklin
Stars, Skills, Astrology
Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

I believe in one God, Creator of the Universe in that He ought to be whipped from pilar to post and back again for His shameful actions toward Humanity.

Benjamin Franklin
Believe, Humanity, Action

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.

Benjamin Franklin
Kings, 4th Of July, Pride
Benjamin Franklin (2010). “Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography & Selected Writings”, p.64, American Liberty Press

Scarcely have I ever heard or read the introductory phrase, "I may say without vanity," but some striking and characteristic instance of vanity has immediately followed.

Benjamin Franklin
Vanity, May, Phrases
Benjamin Franklin (1815). “Life of Doctor Benjamin Franklin”, p.10

There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

Benjamin Franklin
Soul, Fame, Has Beens
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.38, Nayika Publishing

I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead.

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

It is therefore wish'd that all commerce were as free between all the nations of the world as it is between the several counties of England.

Benjamin Franklin
Philosophy, Political, Wish
Benjamin Franklin (2007). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: 1706-1757”, p.301, Regnery Publishing

He [the Rev. Mr. Whitefield] used, indeed, sometimes to pray for my conversion, but never had the satisfaction of believing that his prayers were heard.

Benjamin Franklin
Prayer, Believe, Satisfaction

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