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"Beauty and folly are old companions."
29+ Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
A curated collection of 29 inspirational quotes by Benjamin Franklin on life, wisdom, and the human experience.
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"Applause waits on success."
— Benjamin Franklin
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"He that lives upon hope will die fasting."
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"To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly."
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"He that can have patience can have what he will."
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"A place for everything, everything in its place."
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"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing."
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"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
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"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
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"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
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"Genius without education is like silver in the mine."
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"The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason."
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"The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing."
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"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other."
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"Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy."
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"In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it."
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"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."
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"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."
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"How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them."
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"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."
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"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."
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"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."
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"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."
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"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."
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"The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself."
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"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."
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"For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise."
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"For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise."
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"For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise."