Thoughts on Benjamin

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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin

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The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Every man and woman is born into the world
to do something unique and something distinctive;
and if he or she does not do it,
it will never be done.
- Benjamin E. Mays

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin

They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- 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

I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin

Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin

To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli

When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
- Benjamin Spock

Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- 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

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin

Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- 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

The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin

Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin

A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin

Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
- Benjamin Spock

A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]

Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin

A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin

He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- 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

Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin

We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin

Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin

Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli

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

Action may not always bring happiness;
but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
- Benjamin E. Mays

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

Travel teaches toleration.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

There are three types of lies -
lies, damn lies, and statistics.
- Benjamin Disraeli

A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin

There is a magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships;
it softens the heart,
and even affects the nervous system
of those who have no heart.
- Benjamin Disraeli

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]

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Benjamin Franklin

If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)

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

One who has any faith in God
should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry,
and one who has any faith in God
should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures
from the shelter of compassion and pity,
you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

God's Spirit moves through us and the world
at a pace that can never be constricted
by any one religious paradigm.
I love that.
- Bono

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits
either good or evil, nor do I serve any.
- Lao Tzu

The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions,
it is governed by our mental attitude.
- Dale Carnegie

This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare

Compassion and generosity must be the heart of any true religion.
- 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

I like the silent church before the service begins,
better than any preaching.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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