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Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
Related topics: Values
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
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- 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
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
What you seem to be, be really.
- 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
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
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- 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
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
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]
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Benjamin Franklin
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is not the easy or convenient life
for which I search,
but life lived to the edge
of all that I may be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
search every rabbit hole
for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast
and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat -
dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
- Albert Einstein
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty,
the contemplation of mystery,
or the search of truth or perfection
is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession
of such days is fatal to human life.
- Lewis Mumford
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone
who is more deserving of your
love and affection than you are yourself,
and that person is not to be found anywhere.
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe
deserve your love and affection.
- The Buddha
Be an Original, smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
search every rabbit hole for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat, dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Who made the rule that life has to be so serious?
One would think that "life is serious" had been engraved
upon stone tablets to judge from how most lives are lived.
Get a life, smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
search every rabbit hole for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat - dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
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
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Create happiness for others.
- Dale Carnegie
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Do to others as you would have them do to you.
- Luke 6:31 (the "Golden Rule")
Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively,
the basic goods of life, with awe,
pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy,
however stale these experiences may have become to others.
- Abraham Maslow
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man who was completely innocent,
offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others,
including his enemies,
and became the ransom of the world.
It was a perfect act.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
When you find peace within yourself,
you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
- Peace Pilgrim
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
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
If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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