There are three things extremely hard: s... by Benjamin Franklin | We Heart Quotes

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

- Benjamin Franklin

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Little minds think and talk about people. Average minds think and talk about things and actions. Great minds think and talk about ideas.

- Benjamin Franklin

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The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

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Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

- Benjamin Franklin

Time

Lost time is never found again.

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Tolerate no uncleanness in body, clothes, or habitation.

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We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

- Benjamin Franklin

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