We may make these times better, if we be... by Benjamin Franklin | We Heart Quotes

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We may make these times better, if we better ourselves.

- Benjamin Franklin

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Work Will

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

- Benjamin Franklin

I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.

- Benjamin Franklin

Action

Never confuse motion with action.

- Benjamin Franklin

Fortune

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

- Benjamin Franklin

A small leak can sink a great ship.

- Benjamin Franklin

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

- Benjamin Franklin

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