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Benjamin Franklin Quotes

«If thou dost ill, the joy fades, not the pains; If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.»
«Keep out of the Sight of Feasts and Banquets as much as may be; for 'tis more difficult to refrain good Cheer, when it's present, than from the Desire of it when it is away; the like you may observe in the Objects of all the other Senses.»
«Yet, in buying Goods, 'tis best to pay ready Money, because,»
«I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.»
«Turkey versus Eagle, McCauley is my Beagle.»
«The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.»
«Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.»
«So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.»
«For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.»
«Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.»