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

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

[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependence of somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health for support in age and sickness.

Benjamin Franklin
Eye, Government, Giving
Benjamin Franklin (1835). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin”, p.221

Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive

Benjamin Franklin
Giving, Joy, Pleasure
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
Giving, Injury, Poor Richard
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
Life, Giving, Advice
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
Men, Giving, Office
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
Giving, People, Lines
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.138, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.

Benjamin Franklin
Inspirational, School, Giving
Benjamin Franklin (1986). “The Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.220, Penguin

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

Benjamin Franklin
Giving
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
Men, Giving, One Love
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

If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But Money lost may be found; what we are robb'd of may be restored: The Treasure of Time once lost, can never be recovered; yet we squander it as tho' 'twere nothing worth, or we had no Use for it.

Benjamin Franklin
Time, Giving, Treasure
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.196, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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
Giving, Littles, Captains
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”

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

Benjamin Franklin
Gratitude, Generosity, Giving

My List of Virtues contain'd at first but twelve: But a Quaker Friend having kindly inform'd me that I was generally thought proud; that my Pride show'd itself frequently in Conversation; that I was not content with being in the right when discussing any Point, but was overbearing & rather insolent; of which he convinc'd me by mentioning several Instances; - I determined endeavouring to cure myself ..., and I added Humility to my List, giving an extensive Meaning to the Word.

Benjamin Franklin
Humility, Pride, Giving
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Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world.

Benjamin Franklin
Conquer The World, Giving, Soldier

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

Benjamin Franklin
Years, Yesterday, Giving
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
Giving, May, Sake
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
Giving, Poor Richard, Liberality
Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.282, 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

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

Benjamin Franklin
Inspiring, Giving, Pleasure
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

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