953 ordspråk av Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Here comes Courage! that seized the lion absent, and run away from the present mouse
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Here comes Glib-tongue: who can out-flatter a Dedication; and lie, like ten Epitaphs.
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Here comes the Orator! with his Flood of Words, and his Drop of Reason
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Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.
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Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
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Historians relate, not so much what is done, as what they would have believed.
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Hope of gain lessens pain.
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Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things
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Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things
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How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them
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How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them
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How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them
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How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.
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Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
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Humility makes great men twice honorable
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