"It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them."

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

Franklin, Benjamin on health
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"Clean your finger before you point at my spots."

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

Franklin, Benjamin on insults
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"He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged."

Franklin, Benjamin on kindness
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"The things which hurt, instruct."

Franklin, Benjamin on learning
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"Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him."

Franklin, Benjamin on laziness
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"He that won't be counseled can't be helped."

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

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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin on pleasure
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"Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is."

Franklin, Benjamin on poverty and the poor
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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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"Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion."

Franklin, Benjamin on riches
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"Three can keep a secret if two are dead."

Franklin, Benjamin on secrets
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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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"Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."

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

Franklin, Benjamin on speakers and speaking
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"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."

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

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

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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"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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"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."

Franklin, Benjamin on unity
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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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"Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it."

Franklin, Benjamin on wealth   

"The doors of wisdom are never shut."

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

Franklin, Benjamin on conflict
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"Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor."

Franklin, Benjamin on contentment
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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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"If we do not hang together, we will all hang separately."

Franklin, Benjamin on cooperation
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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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"Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech. "

Franklin, Benjamin on uncategorised
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"Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices. "

Franklin, Benjamin on uncategorised