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Benjamin Franklin Quotes about Giving

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When you are good to others, you are best to yourself.

When you are good to others, you are best to yourself.

Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.282, Oxford University Press, USA

Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive

Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.17, Barnes & Noble Publishing

It is better to take many injuries than to give one.

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

We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.

Benjamin Franklin (2013). “The Way to Wealth: Advice, Hints, and Tips on Business, Money, and Finance”, p.12, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion

Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.234, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Why should I give my Readers bad lines of my own when good ones of other People's are so plenty?

Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.138, Barnes & Noble Publishing

He gives twice that gives soon, i.e., he will soon be called to give again.

Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.33, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so pursues pleasure as not to give for it more than it is worth.

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.222

Hereafter, if you should observe an occasion to give your officers and friends a little more praise than is their due, and confess more fault than you can justly be charged with, you will only become the sooner for it, a great captain.

Benjamin Franklin (1888). “The Complete Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including His Private as Well as His Official and Scientific Correspondence, and Numerous Letters and Documents Now for the First Time Printed, with Many Others Not Included in Any Former Collection, Also, the Unmutilated and Correct Version of His Autobiography”

Give me yesterday's bread, this day's flesh, and last year's cider

Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.20, Nayika Publishing

We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.

Benjamin Franklin (1817). “The Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin ...: Comprising a Series of Letters on Miscellaneous, Literary, 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”, p.52

Liberality is not giving much, but giving wisely.

Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.282, Oxford University Press, USA

I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.

Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1856). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.93