Think how great a proportion of mankind, consists of weak and ignorant men and women, and of inexperienced youth of both sexes, who have need of the motives of religion to restrain them from vice, to support their virtue, and…

Quote by Benjamin Franklin

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The nearest I can make it out, Love your Enemies means, Hate your Friends

The nearest I can make it out, Love your Enemies means, Hate your Friends

Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by...

Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by...

Force shites upon Reason's Back.

Force shites upon Reason's Back.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

Than that of defrauding the government.

Than that of defrauding the government.

Read much, but not many books.

Read much, but not many books.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would...

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would...

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce...

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce...

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Applause waits on success.

Applause waits on success.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to...

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to...

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

Everybody's human-everybody makes mistakes. If you laugh it off and keep going and try to...

Everybody's human-everybody makes mistakes. If you laugh it off and keep going and try to...

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them...

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them...

When a man and a woman die, as poets sung, His heart's the last part...

When a man and a woman die, as poets sung, His heart's the last part...

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I...

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I...

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give,...

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give,...