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Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) was an American polymath — a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. His wit and practical wisdom, captured in works like *Poor Richard's Almanack*, made him one of the most quotable figures in American history.

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“The doors of wisdom are never shut.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Wisdom

All Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

“Beware the hobby that eats.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Food

“The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Work

“It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Good

“I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Death

“Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Good

“Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Good

“In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Nature

“It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Work

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Good

“He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Money

“Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Good

“The first mistake in public business is the going into it.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Business

“To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Alone

“You may delay, but time will not.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Time

“If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Love

“He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Peace

“Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Anniversary

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Learning

“Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Time

“The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Money