"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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"Most fools think they are only ignorant."

Franklin, Benjamin on fools and foolishness
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"There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money."

Franklin, Benjamin on friends and friendship
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"Genius without education is like silver in the mine."

Franklin, Benjamin on genius
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"Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade."

Franklin, Benjamin on genius
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"There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous."

Franklin, Benjamin on greatness
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"The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart."

Franklin, Benjamin on art
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"Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn."

Franklin, Benjamin on ignorance
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"Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble."

Franklin, Benjamin on insults
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"He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor."

Franklin, Benjamin on labor   

"The things which hurt, instruct."

Franklin, Benjamin on learning
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"To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness."

Franklin, Benjamin on modesty
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"If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone."

Franklin, Benjamin on money
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"Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it."

Gide, Andre on truth
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"A wise man hears one word and understands two."

Proverb, Yiddish on words
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"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug."

Twain, Mark on words
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"We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road -- the one less traveled by -- offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth."

Carson, Rachel on choice
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"Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved."

Twain, Mark on death
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"Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world."

Twain, Mark on death
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"The best way out of a difficulty is through it."

Frost, Robert on difficulties
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"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."

Frost, Robert on diplomacy
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"At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on america
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"Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink"

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on humankind
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"Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind."

Alger, William R. on proverbs
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"The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs."

Bacon, Francis on proverbs   

"It's astonishing how important a man becomes when he dies."

Proverb, Yiddish on death
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"The heart is half a prophet."

Proverb, Yiddish on emotions
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"Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble."

Proverb, Yiddish on gold   

"Too humble is half proud."

Proverb, Yiddish on humility
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"All of us are crazy in one way or another."

Proverb, Yiddish on insanity
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"Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold."

Proverb, Yiddish on luck
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"Some people are electrifying, they light up a room when they leave."

Proverb, Yiddish on people
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"A half truth is a whole lie."

Proverb, Yiddish on truth
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"A nation's treasure is its scholars."

Proverb, Yiddish on wisdom
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"A man should go on living -- if only to satisfy his curiosity."

Proverb, Yiddish on curiosity
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"No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness."

Aristotle on insanity
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"Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair."

Eliot, T. S. on insanity
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"Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone."

Gracian, Baltasar on insanity
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