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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

      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.

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As pride increases, fortune declines
topics: complacency , folly , pride  
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I didn't fail the test. I just found 100 different ways to do it wrong.
topics: humor , optimism  
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Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever of folly
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I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody.
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There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
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By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be grown old. I us'd to write more methodically. But one does not dress for private company as for a publick ball. 'Tis perhaps only negligence.
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Nine men in ten are would-be suicides.
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Write people’s accomplishments in stone and their faults in sand.
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Youth is pert and positive, Age modest and doubting: So Ears of Corn when young and light, stand bolt upright, but hang their Heads when weighty, full, and ripe.
topics: old-age , wisdom , youth  
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I recollected that [the rattlesnake's] eye excelled in brightness, that of any other animal, and that she has no eye-lids. She may therefore be esteemed an emblem of vigilance. She never begins an attack, nor, when once engaged, ever surrenders: She is therefore an emblem of magnanimity and true courage. As if anxious to prevent all pretensions of quarreling with her, the weapons with which nature has furnished her, she conceals in the roof of her mouth, so that, to those who are unacquainted with her, she appears to be a most defenseless animal; and even when those weapons are shown and extended for her defense, they appear weak and contemptible; but their wounds however small, are decisive and fatal. Conscious of this, she never wounds 'till she has generously given notice, even to her enemy, and cautioned him against the danger of treading on her.
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Chi è pronto a dar via le proprie libertà fondamentali per comprarsi briciole di temporanea sicurezza, non merita né la libertà né la sicurezza.
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Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such thing as Wisdom; and no such thing as public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.
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[M]y father discourag'd me by ridiculing my performances, and telling me verse-makers were generally beggars. So I escaped being a poet, most probably a very bad one.
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By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be grown old.
topics: aging , digressions  
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l'ambre jaune, aussi bien que la laine lui parurent un peu brûlés. On avoit sans doute remarqué que de tous les corps électriques, le verre est un de ceux en qui le frottement excite une plus forte électricité. Hauksbée s'avisa d'employer dans ses expériences un tube ou cylindre creux de verre. En le frottant rapidement dans sa main, un papier entre-deux, il le rendoit électrique, & faisoit par son moyen toutes les expériences qu'Otto de Guerike avoit faites avant lui avec un globe de soufre. Il observa de plus qu'un tube dont on a pompé l'air, ne s'électrise que très-foiblement, & que si on y laisse rentrer l'air il acquiert beaucoup d'électricité sans être frotté de nouveau. Quand on frotte un tube dans l'obscurité, une lumière fuit la main qui frotte, & si l'on approche de ce tube ainsi excité une autre main, ou quelqu'autre corps, comme du métal, de l'yvoire, du bois, &c. il en sort une étincelle accompagnée d'un bruit assez semblable au pétillement d'une feüille verte jettée au feu, mais moins fort. Quand on frotte le tube vuide d'air, la lumière est plus vive, mais toute dans son intérieur, & l'on n'en peut tirer d'étincelle. Hauksbée imagina aussi de faire tourner sur son axe un globe creux de verre par le moyen d'une rouë & d'une corde qui passe sur la circonférence de cette rouë & sur une poulie fixée sur l'axe du globe. Il excita l'électricité en frottant ce globe, mais il n'en tira pas de plus grands effets que de son tube. L'électricité qui jusques-là ne s'étoit manifestée que par le frottement, Hauksbée la découvrit dans
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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
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Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
topics: wisdom  
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remarqua que si on laisse refroidir de la résine qui a été fondüe, & que, si, avant qu'elle soit tout-à-fait refroidie, on en approche du cuivre en feüilles, elle l'attire à la distance d'un pouce ou deux, sans aucun frottement précédent. M. Gray continua avec succès les recherches électriques de Boyle & de Hauksbée; ayant voulu éprouver s'il y avoit quelque différence dans l'attraction du tube lorsqu'il étoit bouché par les deux bouts & lorsqu'il ne l'étoit pas, il n'en apperçut aucune; mais comme il tenoit une plume ou duvet au-dessus du bouchon de liége dont le bout supérieur du tube étoit bouché, il remarqua que cette plume étoit attirée & ensuite repoussée par le liége de la même manière qu'elle a coutume de l'être par le tube. Cette observation le confirma dans une pensée qu'il avoit euë autrefois, que, comme le tube frotté dans l'obscurité communique de la lumière aux autres corps
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We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
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He that spits against the wind, spits in his own face.
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