"Plough deep while sluggards sleep."
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"Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all"
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"I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies."
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"Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world."
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"Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it."
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"If you, do what you should not, you must bear what you would not."
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"One today is worth two tomorrows."
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""We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an assertion of rationality. The scientific mind of Franklin drew on the scientific determinism of Isaac Newton and the analytic empiricism of David Hume and Gottfried Leibniz. In what became known as "Hume's Fork" the latters' theory distinguished between synthetic truths that describe matters of fact, and analytic truths that are self-evident by virtue of reason and definition."
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"Your argument is sound, nothing but sound."
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"A lie stands on one leg, truth on two."
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"There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self."
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"We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty."
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"Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor."
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"There will be sleeping enough in the grave."
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"Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it."
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"You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on."
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"A man in a passion, rides a mad horse."
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"If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself."
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"I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being."
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"Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy."
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