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Benjamin Franklin Quotes

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“Humility makes great men honorable.”

 

“He is ill clothed, who is bare of virtue.”

 

“Industry need not wish.”

“There are no gains without pains.”

 

“Fools multiply folly.”

 

“God helps them that help themselves.”


“Have you somewhat to do tomorrow, do it today.”

 

“Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.”

 

“Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn in no other.”

 

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

“To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish.”

 

“Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.”

 

“Distrust and caution are the parents of security.”

 

“Truth never fears the encounter, and she triumphs by her natural strength.”


“Laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.”

 

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

 

“Employ thy time well if thou meanest to gain leisure.”

 

“Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.”

“Learning is to the studious, and riches to the careful, as well as power to the bold, and Heaven to the virtuous.”

 

“For age and want, save while you may; No morning sun lasts a whole day.”

 

“They that won’t be counseled, can’t be helped.”

 

“When the well’s dry, they know the worth of water.”


“Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins.”

 

“When the tongues of the people are restrained, they commonly discharge their resentments by a more dangerous organ, and break out into open acts of violence.”

 

“A free Constitution and freedom of speech have such a reciprocal dependence on each other, that they cannot subsist without consisting together.”

 

“I have heard that nothing gives an author so great pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.”