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What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
Related topics: Positive Inspirational Motivational Self
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin 
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
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A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- 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
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- 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
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- 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
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- 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
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
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
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
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
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
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
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff 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
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
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
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whatever you do, you need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you
that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising
that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey
You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado
You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen
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
Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go, radiate kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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