The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Benjamin FranklinThat bodies should be lent us, while they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our fellow creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God - when they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain instead of pleasure-instead of an aid, become an encumbrance and answer none of the intentions for which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we may get rid of them. Death is that way.
Benjamin FranklinTag: death
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
Benjamin FranklinTag: liberty freedom freedom-of-speech
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The discontented man finds no easy chair.
Benjamin FranklinCritics are our friends, they show us our faults.
Benjamin FranklinTag: critics
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
Benjamin FranklinIn the Affairs of this World Men are saved, not by Faith,
but by the Lack of it.
In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves if a child died under it; my example showing that the regret may be the same either way, and that, therefore, the safer should be chosen.
Benjamin FranklinTag: medicine vaccination
Half-wits talk much, but say little.
Benjamin FranklinA place for everything, everything in its place".
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