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Clean your finger before you point at my spots.

Clean your finger before you point at my spots.

Benjamin Franklin
Wise, Wisdom, Hypocrite
Benjamin Franklin (2013). “The Art of Virtue: Ben Franklin's Formula for Successful Living”, p.46, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.

Benjamin Franklin
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Keep conscience clear, then never fear.

Benjamin Franklin
Military, Advice, Never Fear
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.173, Barnes & Noble Publishing

The height of foolishness is to discard an opportunity without full investigation

Benjamin Franklin
Opportunity, Height, Investigation

A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian.

Benjamin Franklin
Christian, Wicked, Virtuous
Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

Benjamin Franklin
Inspirational, Life, Improvement
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Benjamin Franklin
Love, Inspirational, Positive

you can do anything you set your mind to

Benjamin Franklin
Inspirational, Perseverance, Mind

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

Benjamin Franklin
Inspirational, Inspiring, Perseverance

Two dry Sticks will burn a green One.

Benjamin Franklin
Two, Dry, Green
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.245, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

Benjamin Franklin
Book, Reading, Knowledge
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.

Benjamin Franklin
Money, Dinner, Bed

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

Benjamin Franklin
Women, Wife, Danger

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Benjamin Franklin
Motivational, Leadership, World

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.

Benjamin Franklin
Advice, Serious, Persuasion

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

Benjamin Franklin
4th Of July, Long, Wish
Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.45, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Everybody's human-everybody makes mistakes. If you laugh it off and keep going and try to give it your best the next time around, people respect that.

Benjamin Franklin
Mistake, People, Giving

We constantly change the world, even by our inaction. Therefore, let us change it responsibly.

Benjamin Franklin
World, Changing The World, Inaction

It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.

Benjamin Franklin
Men, Innocent Man, Criminals

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Benjamin Franklin
Motivational, Mother, Business
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.2, Nayika Publishing

God helps them that help themselves.

Benjamin Franklin
Inspirational, Wisdom, Business
Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.236

Lose no time; be always employed in something useful.

Benjamin Franklin
Employed, Moral Perfection, Loses
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.68

Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

Benjamin Franklin
Thinking, Accountability, Where You Are
Benjamin Franklin (1904). “Autobiography: Poor Richard. Letters”

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

Benjamin Franklin
Success, Men, Speak

When men differ in opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage of being heard by the public; when Truth and Error have fair play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter.

Benjamin Franklin
Men, Errors, Play
Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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