Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Work
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A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
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A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
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I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil.
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Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.
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Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered by tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do to-day.
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It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
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Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
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Handle your tools without mittens.
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Neglect mending a small fault and 'twill soon be a great one.
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When men are employed they are best contented.
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I early found that when I worked for myself alone, myself alone worked for me; but when I worked for others also, others worked also for me.
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Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
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We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
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Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
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I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.
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Benjamin Franklin
- Born: January 17, 1706
- Died: April 17, 1790
- Occupation: Founding Father of the United States