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Hide not your talents,
by Benjamin Franklin

Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin

Related topics: Wisdom Action

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin

Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin

We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin

Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin

Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin

What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin

Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin

Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin

Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin

When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin

Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin

They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin

If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin

For want of a nail the shoe was lost;
for want of a shoe the horse was lost;
and for want of a horse the rider was lost.
- Benjamin Franklin

A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]

Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin

Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin

Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin

A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin

I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin

He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin

Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin

A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin

Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]

It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin

A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin

There was never a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin

A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Benjamin Franklin

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]

Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
- Benjamin Franklin

Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- Benjamin Franklin

He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.
- Benjamin Franklin

At twenty years of age the will reigns;
at thirty, the wit;
and at forty, the judgment.
- Benjamin Franklin

Hunger is the best pickle.
- Benjamin Franklin

Never has there been a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin

People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
- Benjamin Franklin

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin

Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.
- Benjamin Franklin

Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin

One good Husband is worth two good Wives;
for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.
- Benjamin Franklin

Don't hide your light under a bushel.
- The Bible

Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
- Elbert Hubbard

Rules are mostly made to be broken
and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
- Douglas MacArthur

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
- Albert Einstein

On His Blindness:
When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
And that one Talent which is death to hide
Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest He returning chide,
"Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?"
I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent
That murmur, soon replies, "God doth not need
Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state
Is kingly: thousands at his bidding speed,
And post o'er land and ocean without rest;
They also serve who only stand and wait.
- John Milton (1608-1674)

Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu

Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore

To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson

A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie