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Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin 
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin
For want of a nail the shoe was lost;
for want of a shoe the horse was lost;
and for want of a horse the rider was lost.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- Benjamin Franklin
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Benjamin Franklin
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
There was never a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
- Benjamin Franklin
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never has there been a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.
- Benjamin Franklin
At twenty years of age the will reigns;
at thirty, the wit;
and at forty, the judgment.
- Benjamin Franklin
One good Husband is worth two good Wives;
for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.
- Benjamin Franklin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hunger is the best pickle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Fully experience THIS moment -
breathe in, breathe out - nothing more.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose to be as a young child -
fully awake, eager for the next experience.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We deem those happy, who from the experience of life
have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
- Carl Jung
I believe that anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do,
provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Follow that will and that way
which experience confirms to be your own.
- Carl Jung
The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb
It is important to expect nothing,
to take every experience,
including the negative ones,
as merely steps on the path,
and to proceed.
- Ram Dass
Well-being is making its way to you at all times.
If you will relax and find a way to allow it,
it will be your experience.
- Abraham (Esther Hicks)
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
- Henry David Thoreau
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
Learn to become still. And to take your attention
away from what you don't want, and all the emotional charge around it,
and place your attention on what you wish to experience.
- Michael Beckwith
What I recognized is that you can't put it together.
It's already together, and what you have to do
is experience it being together.
- Werner Erhard
Never "for the sake of peace and quiet"
deny your own experience or convictions.
- Dag Hammarskjold
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new,
meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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