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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
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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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Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.
- Benjamin Franklin
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- 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
Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
- Benjamin Franklin
There was never a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- Benjamin Franklin
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- 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
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- 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]
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
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- 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
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
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.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Feel Unity with Spirit and All Creation
All things share the same breath the
beast, the tree, the man... the air
shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle [actually written by screenwriter Ted Perry in 1972]
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
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.
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
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