Benjamin Franklin

Politician

British America

1706 - 1790

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If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Benjamin Franklin
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
Benjamin Franklin
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Benjamin Franklin
Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin
You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin
My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.
Benjamin Franklin
Time is money.
Benjamin Franklin
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin
Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
Benjamin Franklin