About Benjamin Franklin:

Benjamin Franklin is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions. He facilitated many civic organizations, including Philadelphia's fire department and a university.

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He that lives upon hope will die farting.

Benjamin Franklin

Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

Benjamin Franklin

A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.

Benjamin Franklin

A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

Benjamin Franklin

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Benjamin Franklin

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

Benjamin Franklin

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Benjamin Franklin

Never confuse Motion with Action.

Benjamin Franklin

A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

Benjamin Franklin

My Parents had early given me religious Impressions, and brought me through my Childhood piously in the Dissenting Way. But I was scarce 15 when, after doubting by turns of several Points as I found them disputed in the different Books I read, . Some...

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A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little.

Benjamin Franklin

1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3. ORDER. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4. ...

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In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itse...

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If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the po...

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it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright

Benjamin Franklin

How much more than necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.

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They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

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Author Bio

NameBenjamin Franklin
DescriptionAmerican author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat
AliasesThe First American; Silence Dogood; Ben Franklin
BornJanuary 17, 1706
DiedApril 17, 1790
CountryUnited States Of America
ProfessionWriter; Politician; Publisher; Printer; Political Theorist; Postmaster; Inventor; Political Activist; Statesman; Diplomat; Dilettante; Polymath; Chess Player; Designer; Musician; Political Philosopher; Autobiographer
AwardsFellow Of The Royal Society; Copley Medal

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