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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]
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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
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
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It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- 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
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- 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
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- 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
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
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
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin
Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- Benjamin Franklin
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- 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
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Benjamin Franklin
There was never a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never has there been a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
At twenty years of age the will reigns;
at thirty, the wit;
and at forty, the judgment.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
- Benjamin Franklin
One good Husband is worth two good Wives;
for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.
- Benjamin Franklin
Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hunger is the best pickle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
- Benjamin Franklin
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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 simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
Lives based on having are less free
than lives based on doing or being.
- E.Y. Harburg
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Not everyone is always going to like what you do.
Your job application, your book proposal,
your offer of marriage is going to
get rejected sometimes - perhaps often.
Your boss, your spouse, even the person
behind you in the supermarket checkout line
is occasionally going to think that you are doing it all wrong.
Don't take it personally.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Always question WHY you are doing something.
Is it a free-will gift or an obligation?
That which is done out of a feeling of obligation
is unworkable as a substitute for a gift.
Obligation creates a feeling of resentment on your part,
and evokes resentment rather than gratitude
on the part of the recipient.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The difference between what we do
and what we are capable of doing
would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.
- Lao Tzu
I believe that anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do,
provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
All wrong-doing arises because of mind.
If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
- The Buddha
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
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