Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

Quote by Benjamin Franklin

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Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.

Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is...

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is...

Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.

Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.

Hear reason, or shell make you feel her.

Hear reason, or shell make you feel her.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books.

He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books.

Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous

Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

If you wou'd be reveng'd of your enemy, govern your self

If you wou'd be reveng'd of your enemy, govern your self

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new...

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new...

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has,...

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has,...

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly...

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly...

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

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

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.