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Life’s biggest tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Benjamin Franklin

Aging, Wisdom, Life, Regret, Reflection

Life’s biggest tragedy is that we get old too soon

Life’s biggest tragedy is that we get old too soon

Life’s biggest tragedy is that we get old too soon

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Judgment | Oppression | Patience | Persuasion | Self-Perception | Providence | Comparison | Questioning | Despair | Consumerism | Chess | Herbs | Conscience | Context | Exploration | Quality | Science | Social | Ideals | Pursuit | More

More Benjamin Franklin Quotes

“A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law.”

Benjamin Franklin

Religion, Hypocrisy, Power, Corruption, Deception

“Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'tis the Stone that turns Lead to Gold.”

Benjamin Franklin

Wealth, Opportunity, Value, Wisdom, Success

“The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one.”

Benjamin Franklin

Wealth, Contentment, Greed, Society, Balance

“Ambition has its disappointments but never the fortune to satisfy us; indulgence sharpens its appetite.”

Benjamin Franklin

Ambition, Desire, Success, Discontent, Growth

“Since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.”

Benjamin Franklin

Time, Value, Awareness, Productivity, Life

“If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough. Let us then be up and doing, and doing to a purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity.”

Benjamin Franklin

Time, Value, Productivity, Diligence, Purpose

“Doing your best means never stopping trying.”

Benjamin Franklin

Perseverance, Effort, Dedication, Growth, Success

“After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.”

Benjamin Franklin

Adversity, Growth, Wisdom, Experience, Humility

“The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.”

Benjamin Franklin

Criticism, Attention, Flaws, Humility, Noise

“God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.”

Benjamin Franklin

Health, Healing, Faith, Medicine, Irony

“Quarrels never could last long if on one side only lay the wrong.”

Benjamin Franklin

Conflict, Justice, Peace, Resolution, Fairness

“A word to the wise is enough, and many words won’t fill a bushel.”

Benjamin Franklin

Wisdom, Communication, Brevity, Understanding, Advice

“The longer I live the more convinced I become that God governs in the affairs of men. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine we no longer need His assistance.”

Benjamin Franklin

Faith, Governance, Life, Providence, Reflection

“Why ruin a young girl’s life when you can make an older woman so very happy!”

Benjamin Franklin

Relationships, Happiness, Wisdom, Love, Life Choices

“Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.”

Benjamin Franklin

Vice, Deception, Morality, Appearance, Judgment

“Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.”

Benjamin Franklin

Wisdom, Advice, Learning, Foolishness, Insight

“It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.”

Benjamin Franklin

Desire, Self-Control, Behavior, Temptation, Reflection

“It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.”

Benjamin Franklin

Ignorance, Tyranny, Knowledge, Power, Society

“It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.”

Benjamin Franklin

Greatness, Virtue, Character, Ethics, Morality

“My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.”

Benjamin Franklin

Education, Family, Tradition, Destiny, Career