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May you find comfort and joy in these encouraging quotes by Benjamin Franklin.
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
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A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin 
What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
For want of a nail the shoe was lost;
for want of a shoe the horse was lost;
and for want of a horse the rider was lost.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Benjamin Franklin
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- Benjamin Franklin
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.
- Benjamin Franklin
There was never a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
At twenty years of age the will reigns;
at thirty, the wit;
and at forty, the judgment.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
- Benjamin Franklin
One good Husband is worth two good Wives;
for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hunger is the best pickle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never has there been a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
- Benjamin Franklin
Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.
- Benjamin Franklin
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
- Robert Baden-Powell,
the founder of Scouting.
[as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Choose to See Beauty and Joy:
Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A mind at peace, a mind centered
and not focused on harming others,
is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
- Wayne Dyer
Your example is far more influential and inspiring
than any words of instruction, or threats,
or even words of encouragement.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
The first step towards the solution
of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Begin to act from your dominion.
Declare the truth by telling yourself
that there is nothing to be afraid of,
that you no longer entertain any images of fear.
- Ernest Holmes
You must not under any pretense allow
your mind to dwell on any thought
that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
- Emmet Fox
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