Applause waits on success.
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Benjamin Franklin
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About Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was an American polymath who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States; a drafter and signer of the Declaration of Independence; and the first postmaster general.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Benjamin FranklinWithout continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have le…
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
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He that can have patience can have what he will.
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
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.
Well done is better than well said.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.
Remember that credit is money.
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
Time is money.
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
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.
Nine men in ten are would be suicides.
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
Observe all men, thyself most.