Quote by Benjamin Franklin
Lifes Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late. - Benj

Lifes Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late. – Benjamin Franklin

Other quotes by Benjamin Franklin

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world. – Benjamin Franklin

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Religion
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For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise. – Benjamin Franklin

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Change
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There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes. – José Ortega y Gasset

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Life

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Life

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify. – Henry David Thoreau

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Life

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed. – Booker T. Washington

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Life

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Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again – conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style. – Jurgen Habermas

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Instant availability without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play. – Lotte Bailyn

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Parents

Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to mens manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral. – Francis Bacon

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Reader, Now I send thee like a Bee to gather honey out of flowers and weeds; every garden is furnished with either, and so is ours. Read and meditate; thy profit shall be little in any book, unless thou read alone, and unless thou read all and record after. – Henry Smith

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