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Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin 
What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better than well said.
- 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
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- 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
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- 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
A good example is the best sermon.
- 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
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
At twenty years of age the will reigns;
at thirty, the wit;
and at forty, the judgment.
- Benjamin Franklin
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Benjamin Franklin
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- 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]
There was never a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
- Benjamin Franklin
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- 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
Never has there been a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hunger is the best pickle.
- 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
One good Husband is worth two good Wives;
for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.
- Benjamin Franklin
Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.
- Benjamin Franklin
Know that life is most joyful when you
neither attempt to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
Let us touch the dying, the poor,
the lonely and the unwanted
according to the graces we have received
and let us not be ashamed
or slow to do the humble work.
- Mother Teresa
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ask yourself to slow down.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln
True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
Slow but steady wins the race.
- Anonymous
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years.
To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
- Winston Churchill
Everything that slows us down and forces patience,
everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature,
is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
- May Sarton
Take time today to appreciate beauty -
natural beauty, art, people.
Slow down, breathe deeply, smile.
It's a beautiful world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Lighten up! Slow down the shopping.
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
Consider gifting hand-made cards with messages
of true appreciation in place of store-bought presents.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Experience hath shown, that even
under the best forms of government,
those entrusted with power have,
in time, and by slow operations,
perverted it into tyranny.
- Thomas Jefferson
In choosing joy, the finish line dissolves
into a different matter altogether.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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