He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Quote by Benjamin Franklin
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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
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Benjamin Franklin Quotes
- Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
- Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
- Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
- An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
- Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
- The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
- Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
- Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
- Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
- He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Best Quotes
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- I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.
- If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning.
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- Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.
- Every religion is good that teaches man to be good and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
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- My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.