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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin
Related topics: Wisdom
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- 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 man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
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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.
- Benjamin Franklin
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
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
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- 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
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- 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
We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin
I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- 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
Never has there been a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
One good Husband is worth two good Wives;
for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.
- Benjamin Franklin
At twenty years of age the will reigns;
at thirty, the wit;
and at forty, the judgment.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.
- 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]
Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
- Benjamin Franklin
Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.
- Benjamin Franklin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hunger is the best pickle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
- Benjamin Franklin
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An ounce of conscious choice is worth a pound of good fortune.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Prevention is better than cure.
- Desiderius Erasmus
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
Believe that life is worth living,
and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James
The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing,
we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger,
but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
- Robert Cushing
Most unhappiness comes from resisting life.
Occasionally, you have such a strong commitment
to changing the world order that it is worth
struggling against the flow of life.
But don't live your life as if each minor happening
were a matter of life and death.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
- Grace Hopper
Whatever your work and whatever its worth,
No matter how strong or clever,
Some one will sneer if you pause to hear,
And scoff at your best endeavor.
For the target art has a broad expanse,
And wherever you chance to hit it,
Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame,
There are those who will never admit it.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Loneliness is not what it seems.
One does not feel lonely because one is alone,
but because of a feeling of lack -
a feeling that something is missing.
Loneliness is essentially independent
of how many other humans are around.
It has much more to do with one's self-esteem -
one's sense of inherent worth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose! If it's worth doing, do it today.
If it's not worth doing today, save yourself a lot
of worry and regret by choosing to permanently
erase it from your to-do list.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller
...
Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind
to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist
for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
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