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- It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting,
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- 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.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; "Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith."
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men each, could not cost more than five ships of the line; and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense as that 10,000 men descending from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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