Benjamin Franklin

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Biography : Born: 1706 - Died: 1790
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: United States

United States

Benjamin Franklin - Quotes

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
Benjamin Franklin

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Benjamin Franklin

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
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death

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
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anger

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
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How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
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courage

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
Benjamin Franklin

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
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time

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
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Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Benjamin Franklin

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Benjamin Franklin

Time is money.
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time

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
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value