"Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times."

Luther, Martin on faith
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"Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ."

Luther, Martin on faith
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"Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long."

Luther, Martin on fools and foolishness
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on focus
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"Three can keep a secret if two are dead."

Franklin, Benjamin on secrets
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"He that's secure is not safe."

Franklin, Benjamin on safety
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"Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well."

Franklin, Benjamin on reputation
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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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"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one."

Franklin, Benjamin on want
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"Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it."

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

Franklin, Benjamin on planning
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"He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines."

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

Franklin, Benjamin on persuasion
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"There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self."

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

Franklin, Benjamin on service
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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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"A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar."

Franklin, Benjamin on tact and tactfulness
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"When you're finished changing, you're finished."

Franklin, Benjamin on change
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"If you would know the value of money try to borrow some."

Franklin, Benjamin on borrowing
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"He that speaks much, is much mistaken."

Franklin, Benjamin on speakers and speaking
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"Half wits talk much, but say little."

Franklin, Benjamin on speakers and speaking
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"I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances."

Franklin, Benjamin on slander   

"If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles."

Franklin, Benjamin on wish and wishing
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"Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning."

Franklin, Benjamin on action
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"There never was a good war or a bad peace."

Franklin, Benjamin on peace
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"Love well, whip well."

Franklin, Benjamin on parents and parenting
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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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"The things which hurt, instruct."

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

Franklin, Benjamin on law and lawyers
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"She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth."

Franklin, Benjamin on laughter
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"He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on."

Franklin, Benjamin on ignorance
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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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"Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it."

Franklin, Benjamin on health
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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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"Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never."

Franklin, Benjamin on leisure
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"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late"

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin on pain
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