Two passions have powerful influence on... by Benjamin Franklin | We Heart Quotes

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Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money.

- Benjamin Franklin

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Enemies Friends

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

- Benjamin Franklin

Self

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

- Benjamin Franklin

Wife

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

- Benjamin Franklin

I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

- Benjamin Franklin

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. When you're down to nothing, God is up to something. The faithful see the invisible, believe the incredible and then receive the impossible. Where liberty dwells there is my country.

- Benjamin Franklin

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few His precepts!

- Benjamin Franklin

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