Inspirational Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
“Get what you can, and what you get hold; ’Tis the stone that will turn all your lead into gold.”
“A biblioteca foi um meio para eu me desenvolver pela constância do estudo que me consumia de uma a duas horas por dia. [...] A leitura era a única diversão que eu me permitia. Não perdia tempo em tabernas, com jogos ou qualquer outro tipo de futilidade.”
“Se você acha que a instrução é cara, experimente a ignorância.”
topics: educação
“Creditors are a kind of people that have the sharpest eyes and ears, as well as the best memories of any in the world.”
“A house without woman and firelight, is like a Body without soul or sprite.”
― Benjamin Franklin ,
from Wit and Wisdom
“Franklin, "the most accomplished American of his age and the most influential in inventing the type of society America would become."[4] Franklin became a newspaper editor, printer, and merchant in Philadelphia, becoming very wealthy, writing and publishing Poor Richard's Almanack and The Pennsylvania Gazette. Franklin was interested in science and technology, and gained international renown for his famous experiments. He played a major role in establishing the University of Pennsylvania and Franklin & Marshall College and was elected the first president of the American Philosophical Society. Franklin became a national hero in America when he spearheaded the effort to have Parliament repeal the unpopular Stamp Act. An accomplished diplomat, he was widely admired among the French as American minister to Paris and was a major figure in the development of positive Franco-American relations.”
“From 1775 to 1776, Franklin was Postmaster General under the Continental Congress and from 1785 to 1788 was President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania. Toward the end of his life, he became one of the most prominent abolitionists. His colorful life and legacy of scientific and political achievement, and status as one of America's most influential Founding Fathers, has seen Franklin honored on coinage and money; warships; the names of many towns, counties, educational institutions, namesakes, and companies; and more than two centuries after his death, countless cultural references.”
“The Massachusetts must suffer all the hazards and mischiefs of war rather than admit the alteration of their charter and haws by parliament. They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
“First, let honesty and industry be thy constant companions; and, Secondly, spend one penny less than thy clear gains.”
“If dost thou love life, then Do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of,”
“Who is there that can be handsomely Supported in Affluence, Ease and Pleasure by another, that will chuse rather to earn his Bread by the Sweat of his own Brows?”
― Benjamin Franklin ,
from Silence Dogood
“A man compounded of Law and Gospel, is able to cheat a whole country with his Religion, and then destroy them under Colour of Law.”
“If you empty your purse into your head, no one can take it away from you. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
topics: knowledge
“Great hopes make everything great possible.”
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“Better to be thought fhe fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt.”
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Benjamin Franklin was an important conservative figure in the American Restoration Movement, especially as the leading antebellum conservative in the northern United States branch of the movement. He is notable as the early and lifelong mentor of Daniel Sommer, whose support of the 1889 Sand Creek Declaration set in motion events which led to the formal division of the Churches of Christ from the Disciples of Christ in 1906.
According to contemporary biographies "His early religious training was according to the Methodist faith, though he never belonged to any church until he united with the Disciples."
In 1856, Franklin began to publish the ultra-conservative American Christian Review, which he published until his death in 1878. Its influence, initially considerable, was said to have waned following the American Civil War. Franklin undertook a rigorous program of publication correspondence, and traveling lectures which took him to "many" U. S. states and Canada.
Franklin's last move was to Anderson, Indiana, where he lived from 1864 until his death.