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Quote of Benjamin Franklin - Leisure is the time for doing...


Biography - Benjamin Franklin:

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

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.



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Quotes for: time


Quotes

Quotes about time:


In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.





Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.





Time is a great master; it regulates things well.





It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.





Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.





Time is the moving image of eternity.
Plato - Timaeus / 











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Benjamin Franklin also said...


There was never a good war, or a bad peace.





They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.





Love your Enemies, for they tell you your faults.





At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.





The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.





Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.












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