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Colonial America67 quotes

Remember that Time is Money. — Benjamin Franklin · 1748 Diligence is the mother of good luck. — Benjamin Franklin · 1736 Early to Bed and early to rise, makes a Man healthy, wealthy and wise. — Benjamin Franklin · 1735 Fish and Visitors stink after three days. — Benjamin Franklin · 1736 Haste makes Waste. — Benjamin Franklin · 1753 Little strokes fell great Oaks. — Benjamin Franklin · 1750 All 67 quotes →

American Revolutionary Period5 quotes

Human felicity is produc'd not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day. — Benjamin Franklin · 1790 From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. — Benjamin Franklin · 1790 All Property indeed, except the Savage’s temporary Cabin, his Bow, his Matchcoat, and other little Acquisitions absolutely necessary for his Subsistence, seems to me to be the Creature of public Convention. Hence the Public has the Right of Regulating Descents & all other Conveyances of Property, and even of limiting the Quantity & the Uses of it. — Benjamin Franklin · 1783 There never was a good War, or a bad Peace. — Benjamin Franklin · 1783 The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it, so as to become habits, ready on all occasions. For life is a kind of chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effects of prudence or the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin · 1786

Age of Enlightenment1 quote

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. — Benjamin Franklin · 1755