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When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- 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
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.
- Benjamin Franklin
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- 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
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- 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
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
There was never a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
- 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]
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
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]
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- 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
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- 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
A well-developed sense of humor
is the pole that adds balance to your steps,
as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
Trust your own inner guidance.
Have faith that your steps are
carrying you toward your dreams.
Keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Hold on... Joyfully.
Holding-on does not have to be
a desperate teeth-gritting kind of holding-on.
Holding-on can be a joyful
"this is just the nature of Life,
so I may as well enjoy it"
kind of holding-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.
- John Muir
Well, I don't know what will happen now.
We've got some difficult days ahead.
But it doesn't matter with me now.
Because I've been to the mountaintop.
And I don't mind. Like any man,
I would like to live a long life.
Longevity has its place.
But I'm not concerned about that now.
I just want to do God's will.
And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain.
And I've looked over.
And I've seen the promised land.
I may not get there with you.
But I want you to know tonight, that we,
as a people, will get to the promised land.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Have the will to be well, to be happy, and to live in joy.
- Ernest Holmes
You are defined by your habits - choose well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
- Dave Barry
Your point of view sets you up well in advance
for how you view the events as they unfold.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
- Oscar Wilde
The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
- Plato
Holding-on does not have to be a desperate
teeth-gritting kind of holding-on.
Holding-on can be a joyful
"this is just the nature of Life,
so I may as well enjoy it"
kind of holding-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
Manage through the uncertainties.
Practice appropriate actions and participate in healthy choices.
Value and celebrate the loyalty of the individuals around you:
celebrate their competencies and successes, as well as your own.
Build up your circle and reinforce it at every opportunity.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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