A place for everything, everything in its place.

—Benjamin Franklin

About Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath active as a physicist, philosopher, statesman and inventor who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a drafter and signer of the Declaration of Independence, and the first...

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You may delay, but time will not.

—Benjamin Franklin

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

—Benjamin Franklin

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

—Benjamin Franklin

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

—Benjamin Franklin

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

—Benjamin Franklin

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Order is power.

—Henri Frederic Amiel

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

—Theodor W. Adorno

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I cry out for order and find it only in art.

I am, and always have been, a revolutionary writer, because our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality is an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes, our power wielded by cowards and weaklings, and our honor false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons.

—George Bernard Shaw

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Good order is the foundation of all things.

—Edmund Burke

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