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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]
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin 
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- 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
We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- 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
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- 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
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- 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
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
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]
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
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)
Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
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
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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 do not concern myself with gods and spirits
either good or evil, nor do I serve any.
- Lao Tzu
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions,
it is governed by our mental attitude.
- Dale Carnegie
Compassion and generosity must be the heart of any true religion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Your example is far more influential and inspiring
than any words of instruction, or threats,
or even words of encouragement.
- 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
I like the silent church before the service begins,
better than any preaching.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I examine myself and my methods of thought,
I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy
has meant more to me than
any talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
It is any day better to stand erect
with a broken and bandaged head
then to crawl on one's belly,
in order to be able to save one's head.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Leaders aren't born they are made.
And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
And that's the price we'll have to pay
to achieve that goal, or any goal.
- Vince Lombardi
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it
and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
- Henry David Thoreau
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution.
If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The first step towards the solution
of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines
We are not afraid to follow truth
wherever it may lead,
nor to tolerate any error
so long as reason is left free to combat it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Increase of material comforts,
it may be generally laid down,
does not in any way whatsoever
conduce to moral growth.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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