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Frankisms
Short truths, collected over a lifetime of writing and teaching. Read a few, or lose an afternoon.
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“In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates. — Benjamin Franklin”
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“In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king. — Erasmus”
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“Indebtedness cannot be lessened by borrowing more money, or by changing the form of the debt. — Martin Van Buren”
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“Inside every small problem is a large problem struggling to get out. — Paul Hughes”
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“Into each life some rain must fall. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”
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“It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. — Mark Twain”
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“It is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes of others. — Syrus”
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“It is best not to swap horses while crossing the river. — Abraham Lincoln”
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“It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man by argument. — William McAdoo”
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“It is in our lives and not from our words, that religion must be read. — Thomas Jefferson”
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“It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive. — Peter von Winter”
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“It is never too late to give up our prejudices. — Henry David Thoreau (18171862), Walden, 1, Economy”
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“It is not the employer who pays wages. He only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages. — Henry Ford”
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“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC65 AD), Epistles, 2, 1. 2”
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“It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity. — Frederick Phillips”
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“It is often the little things in life which change things most and last the longest. — Charles Handy”
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“It is the little changes which can in fact make the biggest differences to our lives, even if these go unnoticed at the time. — Charles Handy”
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“It is well that war is so terrible—we would grow too fond of it. — General Robert E. Lee”
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“It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve him. Serving him, I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create. — Leo Tolstoy”
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“It’s a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing. — Andrew Young”
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“It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job. It’s a depression when you lose your own. — Harry S. Truman”
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“It’s better to keep one’s mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and resolve all doubt. — Abraham Lincoln”
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“It’s the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself. — Benjamin Franklin”
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“Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
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“Just as the painter must observe the work in progress from different vantage points to best achieve the desired result, so too can you best achieve your desired results by seeing your life from various vantage points. — Robert Fritz”
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“Learning to manage your missed shots is really the greatest asset to the mental game of golf. — Steven Ungerleider”
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“Let not it be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess. For he only resigns some pleasures to enjoy others infinitely better. — Blaise Pascal”
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“Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. — Mark Twain”
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“Life affords us the opportunity to make of our lives blessings rather than burdens. — Robert Fritz”
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“Life is the garment we continually alter, but which never seems to fit. — David McCord (18971997), Whereas to Mr. Franklin [1956]”
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“Life without risk is just sanitized death. — Steven James”
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“Little changes can somehow have big effects. — Malcolm Gladwell”
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“Little strokes fell great oaks. — Benjamin Franklin (17061790), Poor Richard’s Almanac [1750], August”
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“Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time. — The Dalai Lama”
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“Lost time is never found again. — Benjamin Franklin (17061790), Poor Richard’s Almanac [1748], January”
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“Love can achieve unexpected majesty in the rocky soil of misfortune. — Tony Snow”
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“Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness. — Martin Luther”
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“Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults. — Benjamin Franklin”
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“Man is his own worst enemy. — Cicero”
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“Many people adopt the premise that they must tailor their desires to their talents and abilities. — Robert Fritz”
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