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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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“Better limp all the way to heaven than not get there at all. — Billy Sunday”
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“Better to be pruned to grow than cut up to burn. — John Trapp”
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“Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship. — Benjamin Franklin”
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“Bulls and bears aren’t responsible for as many stock losses as bum steers. — Olin Miller”
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“Buy a used car with the same caution a naked man uses to climb a barbed-wire fence. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
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“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong. — Charles Wadsworth”
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“Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge. — Benjamin Franklin”
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“Chance favors only the prepared mind. — Louis Pasteur”
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“Chances are very good that the person you’re listening to has nobody else in their life who listens to them the way you are doing. — Bob Burg”
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“Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. — Harold S. Hubert”
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“Christ is not valued at all unless he be valued above all. — Augustine”
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“Common sense is very uncommon. — Horace Greeley”
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“Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof. — James Russell Lowell”
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“Debt is the worst poverty. — Magnus G. Lichtwer”
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“Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance. — Robert Quillen”
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“Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of. — Benjamin Franklin”
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“Do what you have to do because nobody will understand your motives anyway. — Dennis Hensley”
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“Don’t believe all you hear, spend all you have, or sleep all you want. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
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“Don’t confuse comfort with happiness. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
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“Don’t confuse wealth with success. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
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“Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched. — Aesop”
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“Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. — Robert Frost”
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“Don’t expect the best gifts to come wrapped in pretty paper. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
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“Don’t let weeds grow around your dreams. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
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“Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. — John Wooden”
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“Don’t stop the parade to pick up a dime. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
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“Don’t think expensive equipment will make up for lack of talent or practice. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
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“Don’t think you can fill an emptiness in your heart with money. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
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“Each morning puts a man on trial, and each evening passes judgment. — Roy L. Smith”
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“Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. — Benjamin Franklin”
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“Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. — Thomas Moore”
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“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. — Robert Brault”
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“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. — Will Rogers”
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“Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. — Henry Ward Beecher”
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“Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question. — Charles Sanders Peirce (18391914), Collected Papers, V, 211”
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“Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him. — Billy Graham”
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“Everyone at every minute of his life must feel something. Only the dead have no sensations. — Constantin Stanislavski”
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“Everyone hears but what he understands. — Goethe”
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“Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. — John Wooden”
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“Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves. — Daniel Webster”
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