{"id":287,"date":"2015-05-05T09:22:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T13:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=287"},"modified":"2015-05-06T13:52:52","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T17:52:52","slug":"benjamin-franklin%e2%80%99s-bon-mots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Franklin Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6446\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/BenFranklin-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"BenFranklin\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/BenFranklin-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/BenFranklin.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/>Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.<\/li>\n<li>Life&#8217;s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.<\/li>\n<li>By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.<\/li>\n<li>Well done, is better than well said.<\/li>\n<li>We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain so.<\/li>\n<li>If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.<\/li>\n<li>Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What&#8217;s a sundial in the shade?<\/li>\n<li>The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.<\/li>\n<li>Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.<\/li>\n<li>He that won&#8217;t be counseled can&#8217;t be helped.<\/li>\n<li>Energy and persistence conquer all things.<\/li>\n<li>If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him.<\/li>\n<li>An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.<\/li>\n<li>All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.<\/li>\n<li>Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.<\/li>\n<li>Half a truth is often a great lie.<\/li>\n<li>At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.<\/li>\n<li>Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.<\/li>\n<li>Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.<\/li>\n<li>Many people die at twenty five and aren&#8217;t buried until they are seventy five.<\/li>\n<li>He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.<\/li>\n<li>If you would be loved, love and be lovable.<\/li>\n<li>In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.<\/li>\n<li>Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.<\/li>\n<li>One today is worth two tomorrows.<\/li>\n<li>Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.<\/li>\n<li>The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.<\/li>\n<li>To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.<\/li>\n<li>There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means &#8211; either may do &#8211; the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.<\/li>\n<li>The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.<\/li>\n<li>When in doubt, don&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li>Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?<\/li>\n<li>The things which hurt, instruct.<\/li>\n<li>To err is human; to repent, divine; to persist, devilish.<\/li>\n<li>There never was a good war nor a bad peace.<\/li>\n<li>When you&#8217;re finished changing, you&#8217;re finished.<\/li>\n<li>He that rises late must trot all day.<\/li>\n<li>If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><em>(ed. &#8211; Photo credit: Joseph-Siffrein Duplessis [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man. 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