"Who is wise? He that learns from..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
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“All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all, the person who knows HOW will always have a job, but the person who knows WHY will always be the boss.”
“The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.”
“If you wou'd have Guests merry with your cheer, Be so your self, or so at least appear.”
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“You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.”
“Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." He planned his routine around waking up at 5 a.m. and asking himself "What good shall I do this day?”
“If it does not work the first time, try, try again. Then quit. No need to be an idiot.”
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“No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness.”
“Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.”
“Imagination is the most powerful force in the universe.”