"The proof of gold is fire..."

Franklin, Benjamin on Adversity
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"Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it."

Franklin, Benjamin on Advice
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"They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles."

Franklin, Benjamin on Advice
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"To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare."

Franklin, Benjamin on Affliction
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"Many foxes grow gray but few grow good."

Franklin, Benjamin on Age and Aging
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"At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment."

Franklin, Benjamin on Age and Aging
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"If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life."

Franklin, Benjamin on Age and Aging
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"An old young man, will be a young old man."

Franklin, Benjamin on Age and Aging
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"Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt."

Franklin, Benjamin on Debt
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"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest."

Franklin, Benjamin on Deception
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"Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?"

Franklin, Benjamin on Deception
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"It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow."

Franklin, Benjamin on Desire
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"If you desire many things, many things will seem few."

Franklin, Benjamin on Desire
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"Diligence is the mother of good luck."

Franklin, Benjamin on Diligence
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"The discontented man finds no easy chair."

Franklin, Benjamin on Discontent
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"Let thy discontents be thy secrets."

Franklin, Benjamin on Discontent
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"All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse."

Franklin, Benjamin on Discontent
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"What has become clear to you since we last met?"

Franklin, Benjamin on Discovery
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"God heals and the doctor takes the fee."

Franklin, Benjamin on Doctors
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"No nation was ever ruined by trade."

Franklin, Benjamin on Economy and Economics
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"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."

Franklin, Benjamin on Education
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"I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people."

Franklin, Benjamin on Enemies
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"Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults."

Franklin, Benjamin on Enemies
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"Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies."

Franklin, Benjamin on Enemies
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"Energy and persistence alter all things."

Franklin, Benjamin on Energy
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"Nothing preaches better than the act."

Franklin, Benjamin on Example
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"Well done, is better than well said."

Franklin, Benjamin on Example
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"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."

Franklin, Benjamin on Excuses
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"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."

Franklin, Benjamin on Expectation
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"Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship."

Franklin, Benjamin on Expenditure
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"Experience keeps a school, yet fools will learn in no other."

Franklin, Benjamin on Experience
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"The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands."

Franklin, Benjamin on Eyes
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"It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture."

Franklin, Benjamin on Eyes
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"In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it."

Franklin, Benjamin on Faith
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"The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason."

Franklin, Benjamin on Faith
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"There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous."

Franklin, Benjamin on Fame
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"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing."

Franklin, Benjamin on Fame
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"He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too."

Franklin, Benjamin on Family
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"There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry."

Franklin, Benjamin on Farming and Farmers
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"Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others."

Franklin, Benjamin on Fashion
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