Benjamin Franklin
United States
17 Jan 1706 // 17 Apr 1790
Writer/Scientist
17 Jan 1706 // 17 Apr 1790
Writer/Scientist
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Well done is better than well said
Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask
To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it
To the discontented man no chair is easy
To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girl friends
To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare
Those things that hurt, instruct
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands
The doors of wisdom are never shut
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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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