"God heals and the doctor takes the fee."

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

Franklin, Benjamin on diligence
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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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"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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"An old young man, will be a young old man."

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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"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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"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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"Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it."

Franklin, Benjamin on advice
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"The proof of gold is fire..."

Franklin, Benjamin on adversity
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"Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on youth
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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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"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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"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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"Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."

Franklin, Benjamin on constitutions   

"Three can keep a secret if two are dead."

Franklin, Benjamin on secrets
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"For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail."

Franklin, Benjamin on preparation   

"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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"Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage."

Franklin, Benjamin on marriage
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"Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours."

Franklin, Benjamin on manners
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"Where liberty is, there is my country."

Franklin, Benjamin on liberty
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"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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"Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed."

Franklin, Benjamin on law and lawyers
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"There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier."

Franklin, Benjamin on happiness
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"Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion."

Franklin, Benjamin on government
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"I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating."

Franklin, Benjamin on alliances
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"Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement."

Franklin, Benjamin on friends and friendship
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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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"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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"The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."

Huxley, Thomas H. on science