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Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
Related topics: Values Urgency Self Honor
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin 
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- 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
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better than well said.
- 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
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin
I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- 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
We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Benjamin Franklin
Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- Benjamin Franklin
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- 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]
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- 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
He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.
- 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
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
- Benjamin Franklin
Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.
- 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
Never has there been a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hunger is the best pickle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Proverb
There is One Infinite Mind,
which of necessity includes all that is,
whether it be the intelligence in man,
the life in the animal,
or the invisible Presence which is God.
- Ernest Holmes
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today;
it is rather the vital necessity of action today
to ensure our strength tomorrow.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
NECESSITY and URGENCY are twin poisons of our rattlesnake minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau
The creation of something new
is not accomplished by the intellect
but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity.
The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
- Carl Jung
Except in cases of necessity, which are rare,
leave your friend to learn
unpleasant things from his enemies;
they are ready enough to tell them.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem.
It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
- Albert Einstein
Geography has made us neighbors.
History has made us friends.
Economics has made us partners,
and necessity has made us allies.
Those whom God has so joined together,
let no man put asunder.
- John F. Kennedy
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
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
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
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