"I early found that when I worked..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin
I early found that when I worked for myself alone, myself alone worked for me; but when I worked for others also, others worked also for me.
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“I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. I am naturally very jealous for the rights and liberties of my country, and the least encroachment of those invaluable privileges is apt to make my blood boil.”
“The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively.”
“Necessity is our quickest excuse.”
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“I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.”
“The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one's country and its people.”
“The Master doesn't seek fulfillment. For only those who are not full are able to be used which brings the feeling of completeness.”