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“There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.”
― Benedictus de Spinoza

“Do not weep. Do not wax indignant. Understand.”
― Baruch Spinoza

“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
― Baruch Spinoza

“Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.”
― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.”
― Baruch Spinoza

“He that can have patience can have what he will.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“You may delay, but time will not.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Hide not your talents, they for use were made,
What's a sundial in the shade?”
― Benjamin Franklin

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Well done is better than well said.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“There was never a bad peace or a good war.”
― Ben Franklin

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Way to Wealth: Ben Franklin on Money and Success

“Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.”
― Ben Franklin

“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
― Benjamin Franklin

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

“It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“If we look back into history for the character of present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another. The first Protestants of the Church of England, blamed persecution in the Roman church, but practised it against the Puritans: these found it wrong in the Bishops, but fell into the same practice themselves both here and in New England.

[Letter to the London Packet, 3 June 1772]”
― ben franklin, The Life and Letters of Benjamin Franklin

“When you are finished changing, you're finished.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.”
― ben franklin

“Lost time is never found again.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.”
― Benjamin Franklin

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

“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Work as if you were to live a thousand years, play as if you were to die tomorrow.”
― Ben Franklin

“A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother.”
― Benjamin Franklin