Benjamin Franklin was a man of many trades. The founding fathers were a group of men who unified the thirteen colonies to gain independence from The Great Britain. He was also an inventor, politician, publisher and spoke extensively of his political philosophies.
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He wrote about the history of physics and therefore was an important figure of American Enlightenment. He also invented lightning rods and bifocal lenses. Since, he campaigned for the unification of the thirteen colonies he was a wise man and had the title of “The First American”.
- “Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.”-Benjamin Franklin
2. “He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.”-Benjamin Franklin
3. “What you seem to be, be really.”-Benjamin Franklin
4. “Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.”-Benjamin Franklin
5. “Our opinions are not in our own power; they are formed and governed much by circumstances that are often as inexplicable as they are irresistible.”-Benjamin Franklin
6. “Having been poor is no shame, being ashamed of it is.”-Benjamin Franklin
7. “God helps them who help themselves.”-Benjamin Franklin
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Since Benjamin Franklin was involved in multiple projects in a variety of fields he prioritized management of time. He believed in doing things worth-while and putting time to very good use.
- “You may delay, but time will not.”-Benjamin Franklin
2. “Look before, or you’ll find yourself behind.”-Benjamin Franklin
3. “One today is worth two tomorrows.”-Benjamin Franklin
4. “Lost Time is never found again.”-Benjamin Franklin
6. “Dost thou love life? Then do not squander Time; for that’s the Stuff Life is made of.”-Benjamin Franklin
7. “Employ your time well, if you mean to get leisure.”-Benjamin Franklin
8. “Haste makes Waste.”-Benjamin Franklin
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“The First American” founded the values of American life. He taught the value of hard work, education and national solidarity. He recognized the importance of self-governing institutions and denied authoritarian values.
- “Better slip with foot than tongue.”-Benjamin Franklin
2. “He that lies down with Dogs, shall rise up with fleas.”-Benjamin Franklin
3. “Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.”-Benjamin Franklin
4. “Don’t throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.”-Benjamin Franklin
5. “He that would live in peace and at ease, Must not speak all he knows or judge all he sees.”-Benjamin Franklin
6. “A true Friend is the best Possession.”-Benjamin Franklin
7. “Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”-Benjamin Franklin
8. “No gains without pains.”-Benjamin Franklin
9. “When you’re good to others, you’re best to yourself.”-Benjamin Franklin
10. “If you wou’d not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write
things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.”-Benjamin Franklin
11. “Wish not so much to live long as to live well.”-Benjamin Franklin
12. “Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days”.-Benjamin Franklin
13. “Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.”-Benjamin Franklin
14. “Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.”-Benjamin Franklin
15. “Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead”-Benjamin Franklin
16. “Would you live with ease, do what you ought and not what you please.”-Benjamin Franklin
17. “Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack’d, and never well mended.”-Benjamin Franklin
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He brought forth the American Enlightenment under strict puritanical regime. He placed emphasis on education and inculcating the right values through means of education in the masses.
- “Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.”-Benjamin Franklin
2. “What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.”-Benjamin Franklin
3. “Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.”-Benjamin Franklin
4. “Well done is better than well said.”-Benjamin Franklin
5. “I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.”-Benjamin Franklin
6. “A right Heart exceeds all.”-Benjamin Franklin
7. “The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.”-Benjamin Franklin
8. “Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good.”-Benjamin Franklin
9. “Hide not your Talents, they for Use were made. What’s a Sun-Dial in the shade!”-Benjamin Franklin
10. “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”-Benjamin Franklin
11. “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”-Benjamin Franklin
12. “Teach your child to hold his tongue; he’ll learn fast enough to speak.”-Benjamin Franklin
13. “The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.”-Benjamin Franklin
14. “The art of getting riches consists very much in thrift. All men are not equally qualified for getting money, but it is in the power of every one alike to practice this virtue.”-Benjamin Franklin
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He was the first secretary of American Philosophical Society. He was a hero to the nation at the time. He was instrumental in having the Stamp Act of Parliament of Great Britain, repealed. He successfully developed a good relationship with French-Americans which aided in their struggle for freedom.
1.“There never was a good war or a bad peace.”-Benjamin Franklin
2.”Security without liberty is called prison.”-Benjamin Franklin
3. “It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.”-Benjamin Franklin
4. “If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.”-Benjamin Franklin
5. “It is better to take many Injuries than to give one.”-Benjamin Franklin
6. “Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.”-Benjamin Franklin
7. “Man and woman have each of them qualities and tempers in which the other is deficient, and which in union contribute to the common felicity.”-Benjamin Franklin