Benjamin Franklin on candle
“Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.”
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An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
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Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing!
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Lost Time is never found again.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Joy is not in things, it is in us.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle.
Mahatma GandhiMahatma Gandhi Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.
Anne FrankAnne Frank We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.
John F. KennedyJohn F. Kennedy There isn’t enough darkness in all the world to snuff out the light of one little candle.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
RumiRumi How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
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