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Early to bed and early to rise,
by Benjamin Franklin

Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin

Related topics: Wisdom

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin

What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin

Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin

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Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin

A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin

Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin

Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin

Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin

Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin

I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin

Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin

A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin

When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin

He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.
- Benjamin Franklin

He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin

A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]

Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin

Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin

They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin

We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin

Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- Benjamin Franklin

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Benjamin Franklin

Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin

It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- 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

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]

We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]

Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

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

There was never a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin

Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin

A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- 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

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
- Henry David Thoreau

Genius always finds itself a century too early.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always arrive late at the office,
but I make up for it by leaving early.
- Charles Lamb

Drop guilt! - because to be guilty is to live in hell.
Not being guilty, you will have the freshness
of dewdrops in the early morning sun,
you will have the freshness of lotus petals in the lake,
you will have the freshness of the stars in the night.
Once guilt disappears you will have
a totally different kind of life, luminous and radiant.
You will have a dance to your feet
and your heart will be singing a thousand and one songs.
- Osho

The early bird gets the worm,
but the second mouse gets the cheese.
- Anonymous

Self-pity in its early stages
is as snug as a feather mattress.
Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
- Maya Angelou

Is it bigger than breadbox?
- the early television show Twenty Questions

A man is a success if he gets up in
the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed,
easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
- Proverb

I once had a rose named after me
and I was very flattered.
But I was not pleased to read
the description in the catalogue:
no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

All men are children, and of one family.
The same tale sends them all to bed,
and wakes them in the morning.
- Henry David Thoreau

As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
- Winston Churchill

May the road rise up to meet you,
may the wind be ever at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face
and the rain fall softly on your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.
- Irish Blessing

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy

An individual has not started living
until he can rise above the narrow confines
of his individualistic concerns
to the broader concerns of all humanity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Don't seek God in temples.
He is close to you.
He is within you.
Only you should surrender to Him
and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
- Leo Tolstoy

I like to talk about a thing I call a "practiced pause."
Just a few moments of pausing allows me
to consider a circumstance and take stock
of what the best direction might be.
Reactions tend to rise from habit and unconsidered action.
A Response is considered and thoughtful.
My actions are my own and I am, singularly,
responsible for what I see, say, feel and exert.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today,
at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little,
at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick,
at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
- The Buddha

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir

An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous

There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill

A dream is a wish your heart makes.
- The Supremes

There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare

Know that the act of smiling makes both you and others happier.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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Early to bed and early to rise,
by Benjamin Franklin