Benjamin Franklin

Politician
1706.01.17 - 1790.04.17

Sayings and Quotes

He that can have patience can have what he will.
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Patience Will He
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
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Failure Fear You Mistakes
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
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Book Wiser He Himself
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
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You Today Tomorrow Never
If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
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Yourself You Like Faithful
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
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Business Mistake First Going
Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.
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Money People Government Free
Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
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Parents Security Caution Distrust
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
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Time Things Precious Greatest
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
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Self Know Hard Three
Applause waits on success.
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Success Applause Waits
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
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Faith Men World Want
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
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Good Excuses Anything He
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
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Great Value Things Made
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.
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Nature Happiness Money Man
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
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He Speaks Much Mistaken
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
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Never Present Fault Without
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
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Nature Improvement Diet General
I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
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Food Die Eating Hunger
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