Legendary Quotes of Benjamin Franklin

By Sreechinth C

Benjamin Franklin was a multi-faceted dignitary who is one of the founding members of United States of America. Franklin is a well-known author, politician, scientist, inventor, a statesman and a diplomat. His father did not have enough money to continue his education and had to be stopped after two years. Ben gained knowledge through reading a lot of books. He invented the lightning rod, bifocal glasses, Franklin stove and numerous many other inventions. Frank spent his time to know more about electricity and became the first to label positive and negative. Ben also acted as a pioneer of demography. Benjamin Franklin’s political achievement includes the activities he led to the uniting the various colonies and becoming the spokesman in London representing the colonies. He was one among who have drafted the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of America. Benjamin Franklin is one of the most influential personas and the founding father of America. This book, 'Legendary Quotes of Benjamin Franklin' contains around 1400 Quotes of the American legend. It reflects his thoughts, wisdom and his views including political.

• Language: English
• Publisher: UB Tech
• Release date: Jun 5, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463223536

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LEGENDARY QUOTES OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

LEGENDARY QUOTES OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Composer: Sreechinth C

DEDICATION

This book, "Legendary Quotes of Benjamin Franklin" is dedicated in the feet of Almighty.

"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

TABLE OF Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN QUOTES

YOUR SURPRISE GIFT

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Sincerely showing thankfulness to all those who participated and supported directly and indirectly in the release of this book.

INTRODUCTION

Benjamin Franklin was a multi-faceted dignitary who is one of the founding members of United States of America. Franklin is a well-known author, politician, scientist, inventor, a statesman and a diplomat. Born in 1706, Ben was the son of Josiah Franklin and Abiah Folger. His father did not have enough money to continue his education and had to be stopped after two years. Ben gained knowledge through reading a lot of books. His parents wanted him to be a clergy but he had something else in mind. He helped his father in his work and later joined his brother to help him at printing trade. He even had written letters and published it under the pseudonym Mrs. Silence Donwood. Later he left that job and eloped to Philadelphia and worked for many printing house. In 1727, Frank organized a small group called Junto, which comprised of people of various strata of society. The group mainly discussed daily life problems and became a model for other organization that evolved later. They also initiated to start a library and spent time in reading books. By 1728, Frank managed to publish his own newspaper. Ben was able to publish his first work Poor Richard’s Almanack but under the pseudonym Richard Saunders. Benjamin was not only a prolific writer but also a scientist and inventor. He invented the lightning rod, bifocal glasses, Franklin stove and numerous many other inventions. Frank spent his time to know more about electricity and became the first to label positive and negative. Ben also acted as a pioneer of demography. Franklin took initiative and played a key role in establishing University of Pennsylvania. Ben’s political achievement includes the activities he led to the uniting the various colonies and becoming the spokesman in London representing the colonies. He was one among who have drafted the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of America. Benjamin Franklin is one of the most influential personas and the founding father of America.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN QUOTES

To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.

Better slip with foot than tongue.

Those who are willing to forfeit liberty for security will have neither.

Men take more pains to mask than mend.

Hereafter, if you should observe an occasion to give your officers and friends a little more praise than is their due, and confess more fault than you can justly be charged with, you will only become the sooner for it, a great captain.

Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that makes it.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred before all other considerations, ought not men, in choosing a business either for themselves or children, to refuse such as are unwholesome for the body, and such as make a man too dependent, too much obliged to please others, and too much subjected to their humors in order to be recommended and get a livelihood?

Hold your Council before Dinner; the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting.

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.

A greater Quantity of some things may be eaten than of others, some being of lighter Digestion than others.

An Episcopalian divine once told the Pope that the only difference between their denominations was that the Church of Rome is infallible and the Church of England is never in the wrong.

Mary's mouth cost her nothing for she never opens it but at others' expense.

Let everyone ascertain his special business and calling, and then stick to it if he wants to be successful.

Passion governs, and she never governs wisely.

I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence.

As charms are nonsense, nonsense is a charm.

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

There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

If by the liberty of the press were understood merely the liberty of discussing the propriety of public measures and political opinions, let us have as much of it as you please: But if it means the liberty of affronting, calumniating and defaming one another, I, for my part, own myself willing to part with my share of it, whenever our legislators shall please so to alter the law and shall cheerfully consent to exchange my liberty of abusing others for the privilege of not being abused myself.

Your best investment is to pour your purse into your head, and no one can take it away from you.

By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favorable chance, and that of persevering in the secrets of resources

The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess.

We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.

An education is the investment with the greatest returns.

Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?

If you do not exclude them, in less than 200 years our descendants will be working in the fields to furnish them substance, while they will be in the counting houses rubbing their hands. I warn you, gentlemen, if you do not exclude Jews for all time, your children will curse you in your graves.

Moderation in all things - including moderation.

We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.

To cease to think creatively is to cease to live

What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . . Happiness springs immediately from the mind.

Courteous Reader, Astrology is one of the most ancient Sciences, held in high esteem of old, by the Wise and the Great. Formerly, no Prince would make War or Peace, nor any General fight in Battle, in short, no important affair was undertaken without first consulting an Astrologer.

Never praise your cider or your horse

If we can sleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are avoided. If, while we sleep, we can have any pleasing dreams, it is as the French say, tantgagne, so much added to the pleasure of life.

If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Force shites upon Reason's back.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

God works wonders now and then; behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.

"It’s more noble to forgive, and more manly to