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He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin
Related topics: Motivational
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
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- 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
We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
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
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- 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
We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- 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
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- 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]
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
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- Benjamin Franklin
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Benjamin Franklin
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
Give the right man two fishes and some bread,
and he will feed the world;
give the wrong man two fishes and some bread
and he will invent the fast-food fish sandwich.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everybody is a genius.
But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,
it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
- Albert Einstein
The River of Life has no judgments.
The River flows with no concept of good and bad - right and wrong.
The fields and dreams of men may be nourished by the River of Life,
or flooded and covered with silt, and the River just flows.
Men may catch fish and live on the River of Life,
or they may founder in a storm and drown, and the River just flows.
The River of Life is timeless.
It is not unchanging, but it is timeless,
and it changes in its own time.
The River of Life knows no obstacles.
The River can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He didn't come out of my belly, but my God,
I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal,
and how he sleeps,
and the fact that he swims like a fish
because I took him to the ocean.
I'm so proud of all those things.
But he is my biggest pride.
- John Lennon
Children are curious and are risk takers.
They have lots of courage.
They venture out into a world
that is immense and dangerous.
A child initially trusts life
and the processes of life.
- John Bradshaw
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- Socrates
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw
Life expands to fill your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter
for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Attitude is everything.
- Charles Swindoll
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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