"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

Franklin, Benjamin on liberty
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"Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame."

Franklin, Benjamin on anger
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"You will find the key to success under the alarm clock."

Franklin, Benjamin on success
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"Never confuse motion with action."

Franklin, Benjamin on action
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"Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man."

Franklin, Benjamin on books - reading
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"Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of."

Franklin, Benjamin on time
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"When you're finished changing, you're finished."

Franklin, Benjamin on change
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"He that rises late must trot all day."

Franklin, Benjamin on time
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"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins."

Franklin, Benjamin on conflict
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"While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us."

Franklin, Benjamin on control
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"The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose."

Franklin, Benjamin on conversation
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"I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning."

Franklin, Benjamin on death
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"Whilst the last members were signing [the Constitution], Doctor Franklin, looking towards the Presidents chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed to a few members near him, that painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art, a rising, from a setting, sun. I have, said he, often and often, in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President, without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting; but now at length, I have the happiness to know, that it is a rising, and not a setting sun. "

Franklin, Benjamin on uncategorised
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"We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowledgment of our services. But let us persevere through abuse and even injury. The internal satisfaction of a good conscience is always present, and time will do us justice in the minds of the people, even those at present the most prejudiced against us. "

Franklin, Benjamin on uncategorised   

"He that speaks much, is much mistaken."

Franklin, Benjamin on speakers and speaking
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"He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir."

Franklin, Benjamin on stupidity
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"Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve."

Franklin, Benjamin on resolution   

"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."

Franklin, Benjamin on anxiety
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"Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them."

Franklin, Benjamin on argument
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"He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face."

Franklin, Benjamin on argument
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"There are no gains without pains."

Franklin, Benjamin on pain
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"He that can have patience can have what he will."

Franklin, Benjamin on patience
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"He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees."

Franklin, Benjamin on peace
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"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."

Franklin, Benjamin on planning
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"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."

Franklin, Benjamin on procrastination
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"You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again."

Franklin, Benjamin on procrastination
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"One today is worth two tomorrows."

Franklin, Benjamin on present
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"Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow."

Franklin, Benjamin on prayer
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"That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing."

Franklin, Benjamin on autobiography   

"A long dispute means that both parties are wrong"

Voltaire on argument
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"By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property."

Voltaire on appreciation
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"Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on opinions
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"It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere."

Voltaire on freedom
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"The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks."

Voltaire on frankness
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"Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient."

Voltaire on divorce
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"You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts."

Voltaire on evil
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"Men give advice; God gives guidance."

Ravenhill, Leonard on guidance
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"All of us are watchers -- of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway -- but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing"

Leschak, Peter M. on focus
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"Work is often the father of pleasure."

Voltaire on pleasure
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"Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read."

Voltaire on poetry and poets
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