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I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.

I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.

Benjamin Franklin
Eye, People, Enemy

He who will not be counseled cannot be helped.

Benjamin Franklin
Self Love

We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.

Benjamin Franklin
Money, Men, House

I grew convinced that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life, and I formed written resolutions . . . to practice them ever while I lived.

Benjamin Franklin
Honesty, Integrity, Men
Benjamin Franklin, Horatio Hastings WELD (1849). “Benjamin Franklin: his Autobiography, with a narrative of his public life and services by H. H. Weld”, p.98

A man separated from his reflective belt is no man at all.

Benjamin Franklin
Men, Belts

In every animal that walks upright, the deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the neck; then the breast and arms; the lower parts continuing to the last as plump as ever; so that covering all above with a basket, and regarding only what is below the girdle, it is impossible of two women to know an old from a young one.

Benjamin Franklin
Animal, Two, Mistress
Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.244, Oxford University Press, USA

Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith.

Benjamin Franklin
Years, Giving, Have Faith

Love of country is the Mason's deed; world citizenship is his thought.

Benjamin Franklin
Country, World, Deeds

Masonic ideas are the precious jewels of Speculative Masons; the should be kept bright and sparkling for all the brethren to see and to admire. As such, they should be the special care of Masonic leaders particularly those who teach and interpret the philosophy of Freemasonry.

Benjamin Franklin
Philosophy, Jewels, Ideas

If you would know the value of money; go, and try to borrow some! For, he that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing! and indeed, so does he that lends to such people, when he goes to get it in again!

Benjamin Franklin
People, Trying, Doe
Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.7, Courier Corporation

The Honey is sweet, but the Bee has a Sting.

Benjamin Franklin
Sweet, Honey, Bees
Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.67, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

A father's a treasure; a brother's a comfort; a friend is both.

Benjamin Franklin
Inspirational, Brother, Father
Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.37, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Have you something to do to-morrow; do it to-day.

Benjamin Franklin
Advice, Morrow

Evils come not, then our fears are vain; And if they do fear but augments the pain.

Benjamin Franklin
Pain, Evil, Worry
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.24, Nayika Publishing

I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating.

Benjamin Franklin
Running, Home, Thinking

If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?

Benjamin Franklin
Other Worlds, Riches, Poor Richard
Benjamin Franklin, Edmund Sears Morgan (2007). “Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin”, p.256, Yale University Press

Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.

Benjamin Franklin
Book, Wit, Miscellaneous
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.131, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the world, we had need be very circumspect lest we do more harm than good.

Benjamin Franklin
Government, Needs, World
Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Louis Ketcham (2003). “The Political Thought of Benjamin Franklin”, p.73, Hackett Publishing

We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.

Benjamin Franklin
Kindness, Kind, Posterity
Benjamin Franklin (1900). “The life of Benjamin Franklin”

That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.

Benjamin Franklin
Writing, Remembrance, Records
Benjamin Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin, written by himself to a late period, and continued to his death by W.T. Franklin. Comprising the private correspondence and public negotiations of dr. Franklin and a selection from his works”, p.2

The Golden Age was never the present age.

Benjamin Franklin
Age, Golden, Golden Age
James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.

Benjamin Franklin
Men, Knitting, Tea

Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.

Benjamin Franklin
Sorry, Nice, Science
1783 Letter to Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society, 27 Jul.

Getting into debt, is getting into a tanglesome net.

Benjamin Franklin
Debt

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.

Benjamin Franklin
Sea, Bird, Missing
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.275, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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