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A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
Related topics: Wisdom
What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin 
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Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- 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
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
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- 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
Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- Benjamin Franklin
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
- 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
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]
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- 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
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
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
There was never a good war or a bad peace.
- 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
Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh,
for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
- Epictetus
Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
And just dance a little.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
If i had known... i would have lingered
over my coffee a little longer.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I will dance a little.
I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
What if they are a little coarse,
and you may get your coat soiled or torn?
What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled
in the dirt once or twice.
Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
Alone we can do so little;
together we can do so much.
- Helen Keller
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
He who can give thanks for little
will always find he has enough.
- Anonymous
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
Two little words that can make the difference: START NOW.
- Mary C. Crowley
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
- Jimmy Johnson
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God
who is sending a love letter to the world.
- Mother Teresa
For as long as I can remember, I've been searching for something,
some reason why we're here. What are we doing here? Who are we?
If this is a chance to find out
even just a little part of that answer...
I don't know, I think it's worth a human life. Don't you?
- the Jodie Foster movie Contact (1997)
Magic is natural to Wizards,
and only a little harder for the rest of us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.
Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower
or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets,
but I have found that when I silently commune with people
they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.
- George Washington Carver
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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