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To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previosly unsusceptible.

To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previosly unsusceptible.

Benjamin Franklin
Moving, Character, Energy

Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and revealed to him the art of making le vin. By the aid of this liquid he unveiled more and more truth.

Benjamin Franklin
Art, Food, Wine

Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of God? labour in the first place to bring thy Appetite into Subjection to Reason.

Benjamin Franklin
Hard Work, Health, Science
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.102, Barnes & Noble Publishing

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.

Benjamin Franklin
War, Thinking, Has Beens
Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.107

Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.

Benjamin Franklin
Honesty, Mistake, Character
Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “The Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin .. Comprising a Series of Letters on Miscellaneous, Litarary, and Political Subjects: Written Between the Years 1753 and 1790; Illustrating the Memoirs of His Public and Private Life, and Developing the Secret History of His Political Transactions and Negociations. Now First Published from the Originals”, p.250

What one relishes, nourishes.

Benjamin Franklin
Inspiration, Healing, Relish
Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.11, Courier Corporation

He that sells upon Credit expects to lose 5 per Cent. By bad Debts; therefore he charges, on all he sells upon Credit, an Advance that shall make up that Deficiency.

Benjamin Franklin
Credit, Debt, Deficiency
Benjamin Franklin (2006). “The Portable Benjamin Franklin”, p.173, Penguin

'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.

Benjamin Franklin
Revenge, Forgiving, Noble
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.211, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Cheese and salt meat, should be sparingly eat.

Benjamin Franklin
Health, Meat, Salt
Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.35, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

Use now and then a little Exercise a quarter of an Hour before Meals, as to swing a Weight, or swing your Arms about with a small Weight in each Hand; to leap, or the like, for that stirs the Muscles of the Breast.

Benjamin Franklin
Health, Exercise, Science
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.102, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.

Benjamin Franklin
Love, Cures, Possession
Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.42, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

A dying man can do nothing easy.

Benjamin Franklin
Men, Dying, Easy
Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow (2011). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself”, p.464, Cambridge University Press

I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.

Benjamin Franklin
Science, Light, Should Have

What is a butterfly? At best He's but a caterpiller drest. The gaudy Fop's his picture just.

Benjamin Franklin
Butterfly, Poor Richard, Gaudy
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.79, Barnes & Noble Publishing

The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess.

Benjamin Franklin
Games, Chess Game, Mind
François Danican Philidor, Sir William Jones, Benjamin Franklin (1824). “An Easy Introduction to the Game of Chess: Containing One Hundred Examples of Games and a Great Variety of Critical Situations and Conclusions ; Including the Whole of Philidor's Analysis with Copious Selections from Stamma, the Calabrois, &c”, p.237

Twas Noah who first planted the vine And mended his morals by drinking its wine.

Benjamin Franklin
Drinking, Wine, Vines

A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy - "A republic," replied the Doctor, "if you can keep it."

Benjamin Franklin
Doctors, Republic, Drs

And as to the Cares, they are chiefly what attend the bringing up of Children; and I would ask any Man who has experienced it, if they are not the most delightful Cares in the World; and if from that Particular alone, he does not find the Bliss of a double State much greater, instead of being less than he expected.

Benjamin Franklin
Family, Children, Men
Benjamin Franklin, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack and Other Writings”, p.66, Courier Corporation

To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your coffee-house talkers.

Benjamin Franklin
Coffee, House, Political
Benjamin Franklin (1950). “Letters to the Press, 1758-1775”

Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.

Benjamin Franklin
Law, Eggs, Perfection
Poor Richard's Almanack, May 1734

God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.

Benjamin Franklin
God, Vices, Rewards
Benjamin Franklin (1869). “Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.233

That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.

Benjamin Franklin
Innocent Person, Justice, Long
Letter to Benjamin Vaughan, 14 Mar. 1785

Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.

Benjamin Franklin
Purses, Workmen, Poor Richard
Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.239

Perhaps I was too saucy and provoking.

Benjamin Franklin
Provoking
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.28, Applewood Books

Squeamish stomachs cannot eat without pickles.

Benjamin Franklin
Pickles
Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1848). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Containing the Autobiography, with Notes and a Continuation”, p.122

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