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#1

“The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.”
― John Muir

tags: inspirational

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#2

“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
― Dorothy Parker

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#3

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin

tags: freedom, liberty, privacy, safety, security

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#4

“He that can have patience can have what he will.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: determination, inspirational, patience

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#5

“A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: funny, inspirational, money

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#6

“Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: death

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#7

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: hmmm

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#8

“You may delay, but time will not.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: procrastination, time, time-quotes

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#9

“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

[misquote of a letter about wine, see quotes/831031]”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: beer, drinking, misquote

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#10

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: learning, mentoring, parenting, teacher

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#11

“I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: examinations, failure, humor

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#12

“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: willful-ignorance

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#13

“How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: christian-behavior, christmas, religion

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#14

“Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.”
― James Bovard, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty

tags: democracy, freedom, government, misattributed-ben-franklin, paraphrase-gary-strand

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#15

“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: advice, apology

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#16

“Hide not your talents, they for use were made,
What's a sundial in the shade?”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: talent, wisdom, work

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#17

“Well done is better than well said.”
― Benjamin Franklin

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#18

“The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: enterprise, self-determination

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#19

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: planning, preparation

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#20

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

tags: secrets

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#21

“If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: books, censorship, reading

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#22

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Way to Wealth: Ben Franklin on Money and Success

tags: knowledge

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#23

“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: equity, justice, laws

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#24

“Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: death, life, wordplay

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#25

“Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: friendship

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#26

“It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: dissent, duty, independent-thought

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#27

“I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: general-welfare, government

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#28

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

tags: growth, new-year

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#29

“Never confuse Motion with Action.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

tags: action

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#30

“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: inspirational

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