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Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin 
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- 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
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- 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
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- 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
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- 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
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- 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 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
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are
something to do,
something to love,
and something to hope for.
- Joseph Addison
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
Now abide faith, hope, love, these three;
but the greatest of these is love.
- Corinthians 13:13
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
Never forget the three powerful resources
you always have available to you:
love, prayer, and forgiveness.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha
All Knowledge is Divided into Three Domains:
"What We Know",
"What We Know That We Don't Know", and
"What We Don't Know That We Don't Know."
- Werner Erhard
I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau
Three Rules of Work:
Out of clutter find simplicity;
From discord find harmony;
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
There are three types of lies -
lies, damn lies, and statistics.
- Benjamin Disraeli
I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize.
The first is gentleness;
the second is frugality;
the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others.
Be gentle and you can be bold;
be frugal and you can be generous;
avoid putting yourself before others
and you can become a leader among men.
- Lao Tzu
I truly believe that happiness is possible...
even when you're thirty-three
and have a bottom the size of two bowling balls.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
To the uneducated an A is just three sticks.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
There are three hundred and sixty-four days
when you might get un-birthday presents,
and only one for birthday presents, you know.
- Lewis Carroll
Steve Jobs' Three Rules of Life ...
1. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
2. Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice.
3. Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
I want to share with you the three rules
that I have in order to accept an apprentice.
Rule Number 1: Don't believe me.
I don't want you to believe me
but I want you to listen and make choices - your choices.
If what I say, doesn't work for you, leave it.
But if it works for you and that's what you want, then make it yours.
Rule Number 2: Don't believe yourself.
Why? Because most of your belief system is a lie - it's not true.
And by believing yourself, you create all the limitations
that don't allow you to be what you really are.
Don't believe yourself. Listen to what you say,
listen to what you think, listen to what you believe.
And when you listen, open your ears, open your mind,
open your intelligence and make choices.
Rule 3 is, don't believe anybody else.
Don't believe them at all.
Open your ears and your mind; listen and make choices.
- don Miguel Ruiz
One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin
There are three rules for dating:
1) Don't;
2) If you must, just be careful;
3) Forget the rules, your hormones will win anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have three kinds of friends:
those who love me,
those who pay no attention to me,
and those who detest me.
- Nicolas De Chamfort
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Trust your own inner guidance.
Have faith that your steps are
carrying you toward your dreams.
Keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To keep your thinking young, stay curious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Keep a grateful journal. Every night,
list five things you are grateful for.
- Oprah Winfrey
Keep your feet firmly planted on the ground
as you reach for the stars.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact.
If that doesn't happen, none of this is worth it.
- Jewel
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