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Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
Related topics: Wisdom
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin 
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- 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
A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- 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
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
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
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- 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]
Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- 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
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Benjamin Franklin
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
- Henry David Thoreau
I always arrive late at the office,
but I make up for it by leaving early.
- Charles Lamb
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The early bird gets the worm,
but the second mouse gets the cheese.
- Anonymous
Drop guilt! - because to be guilty is to live in hell.
Not being guilty, you will have the freshness
of dewdrops in the early morning sun,
you will have the freshness of lotus petals in the lake,
you will have the freshness of the stars in the night.
Once guilt disappears you will have
a totally different kind of life, luminous and radiant.
You will have a dance to your feet
and your heart will be singing a thousand and one songs.
- Osho
Is it bigger than breadbox?
- the early television show Twenty Questions
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed,
easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
- Proverb
A man is a success if he gets up in
the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan
I once had a rose named after me
and I was very flattered.
But I was not pleased to read
the description in the catalogue:
no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Don't seek God in temples.
He is close to you.
He is within you.
Only you should surrender to Him
and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
- Leo Tolstoy
An individual has not started living
until he can rise above the narrow confines
of his individualistic concerns
to the broader concerns of all humanity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
May the road rise up to meet you,
may the wind be ever at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face
and the rain fall softly on your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.
- Irish Blessing
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
- Winston Churchill
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir
There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say.
Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful:
he makes saints out of sinners.
- Soren Kierkegaard
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
The great gift of Easter is hope -
Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God,
in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love,
which nothing can shake.
- Basil C. Hume
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
- The Supremes
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Constant kindness can accomplish much.
As the sun makes ice melt,
kindness causes misunderstanding,
mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
- Albert Schweitzer
When all is said and done,
the one sole condition that makes
spiritual happiness and preserves it
is the absence of doubt.
- Mark Twain
Know that the act of smiling makes both you and others happier.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's the Consciousness with which we participate
in activities that makes the difference.
- Michael Beckwith
The promises we makes to ourselves are the things
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
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