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Quote by Benjamin Franklin
The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has

The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor. – Benjamin Franklin

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The U. S. Constitution doesnt guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. – Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness
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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. – Benjamin Franklin

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I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. – Abraham Lincoln

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Hypocrisy

The most melancholy thing about human nature, is, that a man may guide others into the path of salvation, without walking in it himself; that he may be a pilot, and yet a castaway. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Hypocrisy

A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night. – Thomas Macaulay

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We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach. – Bertrand Russell

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Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force. – Irving Berlin

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and theres just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning. – Dave Eggers

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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before. – James Truslow Adams

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