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Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
by 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]

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Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- 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

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin

He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin

A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin

One good Husband is worth two good Wives;
for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.
- 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

It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin

A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]

Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin

Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin

Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin

Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin

A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin

Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
- Benjamin Franklin

A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin

When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin

Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin

We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin

At twenty years of age the will reigns;
at thirty, the wit;
and at forty, the judgment.
- 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

Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin

He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.
- 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

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin

We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin

There was never a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- 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

Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin

Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin

Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- 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

Never has there been a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin

What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin

People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin

Hunger is the best pickle.
- Benjamin Franklin

Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin

Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.
- Benjamin Franklin

They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin

Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin

I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]

Doing Quotes and Sayings

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart

Lives based on having are less free
than lives based on doing or being.
- E.Y. Harburg

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono

If life is a bowl of cherries, then what am I doing in the pits?
- Erma Bombeck

The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb

The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot

Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do;
the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
- Mary Wilson Little

Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker

Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
- Benjamin Spock

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (attributed)

It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill

People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.
It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
- Margaret Thatcher

Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson

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

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