Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
by Benjamin Franklin
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Sayings by Benjamin Franklin
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin 
What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- 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
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- 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
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.
- Benjamin Franklin
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
- 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
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- 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
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
At twenty years of age the will reigns;
at thirty, the wit;
and at forty, the judgment.
- Benjamin Franklin
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
Fear Sayings
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering
is worse than the suffering itself.
- Paulo Coelho
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter
for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Swedish Proverb
The most painful and debilitating fear is fear of the unknown.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
To live a creative life
we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce
Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
- Anonymous
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
- Karl Barth
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca
If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius
Know that love conquers fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear is the root of the tree of suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
- Susan Jeffers
Courage is not the absence of fear,
but rather the judgement that something else
is more important than fear.
- Ambrose Redmoon
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
- George Washington
Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear,
and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
- Lester B. Pearson
I will gather myself around my faith,
for light does the darkness most fear.
- Jewel
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