Benjamin Franklin
United States
17 Jan 1706 // 17 Apr 1790
Writer/Scientist
17 Jan 1706 // 17 Apr 1790
Writer/Scientist
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Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days
Games lubricate the body and the mind
Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise
Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing
Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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