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Quote of Benjamin Franklin: The eye of the master will...


Biography - Benjamin Franklin:

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

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.



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Quotes for: work


Quotes

Quotes about work:


To make a virtue out of necessity; that is the beautiful and great work.





The mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.





My work is a game, a very serious game.





The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.





It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.





Sowing is not so hard as reaping.











Quotes

Quotes for: eyes


To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.





It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.





Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.





What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.





Philosophy is written in this grand book, which stands continually open before our eyes (I say the Universe), but can not be understood without first learning to comprehend the language and know the characters as it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible to humanly understand a word; without these one is wandering in a dark labyrinth.





The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is.











Quotes

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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