Thoughts on Franklin

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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]

What if it were only an illusion?
Perhaps life is not as threatening as it appears.
Perhaps the greatest threat to our serenity
is our fear of the future -
our fear of the unknown.
Perhaps, as Franklin D. Roosevelt said,
"The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

When you reach the end of your rope,
tie a knot and hang on.
- Anonymous Saying
(Sometimes attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Eleanor Roosevelt, or Thomas Jefferson)

To reach a port, we must sail -
sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt quoting Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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

What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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

Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin

A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin

Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement
and the thrill of creative effort.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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]

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

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

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

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

Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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

Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin

"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile,
one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin

When a man you like switches from what
he said a year ago, or four years ago,
he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough
to change his mind with changing conditions.
When a man you don't like does it,
he is a liar who has broken his promise.
- Franklin Pierce Adams

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror
which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin

Competition has been shown to be useful
up to a certain point and no further,
but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today,
begins where competition leaves off.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin

Love doesn't make the world go 'round,
Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
- Franklin P. Jones

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- 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

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

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

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

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

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

Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

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

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

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

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

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

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