Quotes from Benjamin Franklin

Tôi không nói x?u ai mà ch? nói nh?ng ?i?u t?t ??p tôi ???c bi?t v? h?.

For the studies, first they should begin with the chief and necessary rules of some good grammar, either that now used, or any better: and while this is doing, their speech is to be fashioned to a distinct and clear pronunciation, as near as may be to the Italian, especially in the vowels.

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in 1742, invented an open stove for the better warming of rooms, and at the same time saving fuel, as the fresh air admitted was warmed in entering,

But when did you ever undertake a voyage for the purpose of reviewing your own principles and getting rid of any of them that proved unsound?

Make yourself sheep, and the wolves will eat you.

Franklin's Note.—Nothing so likely to make a man's fortune as virtue.

But one does not dress for private company as for a public ball. 'Tis perhaps only negligence.

I declin'd it from a principle which has ever weighed with me on such occasions, viz., That, as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously.

He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another than he whom you yourself have obliged." And it shows how much more profitable it is prudently to remove, than to resent, return, and continue, inimical proceedings.

The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her outgoes are greater than her incomes.

But there are many who, though they frequently hear the Gospel, yet feel but little longing after it, because they have not the mind of Christ. He, therefore, that will fully and with true wisdom understand the words of Christ, let him strive to conform his whole life to that mind of Christ.

the Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People, is sacredly obligatory upon all.—

Perhaps I was too saucy

He that best understands the world, least likes it. - Benjamin Franklin, 1753

the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave,

Women and wine, game and deceit, Make the wealth small and the want great.

Lo que hiere, enseña...

The best doctor gives least Medicine.

themselves and their own

of light and life, thou Good Supreme! O teach me what is good; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!

A small leak will sink a great ship,

A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel.

If our great view is upon those of the next, the expectation of them is an infinitely higher satisfaction than the enjoyment of those of the present.