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Benjamin Franklin

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

Benjamin Franklin

In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.

Benjamin Franklin

There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

Benjamin Franklin

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Benjamin Franklin

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe seldom executed.

Benjamin Franklin

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin

Were the offer made true I would engage to run again from beginning to end the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author to correct in a second edition certain errors of the first.

Benjamin Franklin

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

If you would be loved love and be lovable.

Benjamin Franklin

Diligence is the mother of good luck and God gives all things to industry.

Benjamin Franklin

You can bear your own faults and why not a fault in your wife?

Benjamin Franklin

Where theres marriage without love there will be love without marriage.

Benjamin Franklin

God heals and the doctor takes the fees.

Benjamin Franklin

Nothing is more fatal to health than an overcare of it.

Benjamin Franklin

Hes the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.

Benjamin Franklin

We must indeed all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.

Benjamin Franklin

If you would know the value of money go and try to borrow some.

Benjamin Franklin

Let they childs first lesson be obedience and the second will be what thou wilt.

Benjamin Franklin

Lost time is never found again.

Benjamin Franklin

You may delay but time will not.

Benjamin Franklin