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No gains without pains.

No gains without pains.

Benjamin Franklin
Pain, Gains, Conservative
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.249

Hope of gain lessens pain.

Benjamin Franklin
Pain, Gains
Benjamin Franklin (1849). “Poor Richard's almanac for 1850-52”, p.33

Men take more pains to mask than mend.

Benjamin Franklin
Pain, Men, Mask
Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.18, Courier Corporation

The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.

Benjamin Franklin
Pain, Men, Suffering
Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.18, Courier Corporation

Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor; but then the trade must be worked at and the calling followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes. If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while idleness and neglect increase them.

Benjamin Franklin
Life, Pain, Office

We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us while they afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge or in doing good to our fellow-creatures, is a kind of benevolent act of God. When they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain instead of pleasure, instead of an aid become an encumbrance and answer none of these intentions for which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we get rid of them. Death is that way.

Benjamin Franklin
Death, Pain, Way
Benjamin Franklin (1986). “The Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.246, Penguin

Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.

Benjamin Franklin
Pain, Character, Despair
Benjamin Franklin (1848). “The works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of essays, humorous, moral, and literary: with his life, written by himself”, p.209, S. Andrus

Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.

Benjamin Franklin
Pain, Understanding, Body
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.32, Nayika Publishing

Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.

Benjamin Franklin
Inspirational, Pain, Liberty
Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.49, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

Is there anything men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?

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

There's no gain, without pain.

Benjamin Franklin
Sports, Pain, Gains

There is no gains without pain.

Benjamin Franklin
Pain, Gains, Without Pain

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

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