Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?
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Benjamin FranklinPoor Richard's Almanack (1750)
About Benjamin Franklin
American founding father, scientist, inventor and publisher of Poor Richard's Almanack. (1706-1790)
More from Benjamin Franklin
- Well done is better than well said.Poor Richard's Almanack (1737)
- Lost time is never found again.Poor Richard's Almanack (1748)
- Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.Poor Richard's Almanack (1746; repeated 1757)
- Diligence is the mother of good luck.Poor Richard's Almanack (1736)
- Little strokes fell great oaks.Poor Richard's Almanack (1750)
- Who is wise? He that learns from every one. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content.Poor Richard's Almanack (1755)
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- You don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.Maya Angelou
- To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.Oscar Wilde
- Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.William Shakespeare
- Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.Ernest Hemingway
- All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.Ernest Hemingway
- UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.Dr. Seuss
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