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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin 
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.
- Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
There was never a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- Benjamin Franklin
For want of a nail the shoe was lost;
for want of a shoe the horse was lost;
and for want of a horse the rider was lost.
- Benjamin Franklin
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
At twenty years of age the will reigns;
at thirty, the wit;
and at forty, the judgment.
- Benjamin Franklin
Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Proverb
NECESSITY and URGENCY are twin poisons of our rattlesnake minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is One Infinite Mind,
which of necessity includes all that is,
whether it be the intelligence in man,
the life in the animal,
or the invisible Presence which is God.
- Ernest Holmes
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today;
it is rather the vital necessity of action today
to ensure our strength tomorrow.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The creation of something new
is not accomplished by the intellect
but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity.
The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
- Carl Jung
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Mother's love grows by giving.
- Charles Lamb
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
Peace begins with a smile.
- Mother Teresa
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
Love is a fruit in season at all times,
and within reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa
"Mother Teresa Prayer"
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you
of selfish, ulterior motives;
... Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
... Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
... Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
... Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
... Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
... Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
... Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
We can do no great things - only small things with great love.
- although commonly attributed to Mother Teresa,
who kept a copy of this prayer on
the wall of her Calcutta orphanage,
this prayer was actually written by Kent Keith.
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
- Emily Dickinson
Do not think that love,
in order to be genuine,
has to be extraordinary.
What we need is to love without getting tired.
- Mother Teresa
We think sometimes that poverty is only
being hungry, naked and homeless.
The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and
uncared for is the greatest poverty.
We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
- Mother Teresa
Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
- Abraham Lincoln
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