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"Plough deep while sluggards sleep."

Franklin, Benjamin on opportunity    Share


"There are no gains without pains."

Franklin, Benjamin on pain
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"If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect."

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin on procrastination
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"Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them."

Franklin, Benjamin on relationship
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"Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences."

Franklin, Benjamin on rules
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"Observe all men, thyself most."

Franklin, Benjamin on self-observation
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"If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself."

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

Franklin, Benjamin on action
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"Read much, but not many books."

Franklin, Benjamin on books - reading    Share

"A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar."

Franklin, Benjamin on tact and tactfulness
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"We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness."

Franklin, Benjamin on taxes and taxation
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"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."

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

Franklin, Benjamin on time
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"Tomorrow every fault is to be amended; but tomorrow never comes."

Franklin, Benjamin on tomorrow
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"Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything."

Franklin, Benjamin on waste    Share

"Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield."

Franklin, Benjamin on wealth    Share

"He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him."

Franklin, Benjamin on wealth
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"It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man."

Franklin, Benjamin on work
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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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"Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five."

Franklin, Benjamin on death
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"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

Franklin, Benjamin on running
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"A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity."

Jefferson, Thomas on happiness
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"Always take hold of things by the smooth handle."

Jefferson, Thomas on life    Share

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

Jefferson, Thomas on luck
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"Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly."

Jefferson, Thomas on morality
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"It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquillity and occupation which give happiness."

Jefferson, Thomas on occupation
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"The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset."

Jefferson, Thomas on pain
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"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it."

Jefferson, Thomas on pleasure
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"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."

Jefferson, Thomas on attitude
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"In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current."

Jefferson, Thomas on principles
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"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today."

Jefferson, Thomas on procrastination
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"I cannot live without books."

Jefferson, Thomas on books - reading
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"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."

Jefferson, Thomas on brevity
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"How much pain worries have cost us that have never happened?"

Jefferson, Thomas on worry
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