If I could go back in time in the Blurt Time Machine I would travel to the year 1730 and bring Benjamin Franklin back to Blurt to create a blog where he could share his inventions, his thoughts and his incredible wit with us here ….
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S FAMOUS QUOTES
“Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1756
“He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1739
“There never was a good war or a bad peace.”
-Letter to Sir Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society of London, July 1783. Also cited in a letter to Quincy, Sr., American merchant, planter and politician, September 1783.
“He that lies down with Dogs, shall rise up with fleas.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1733
“Better slip with foot than tongue.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1734
“Look before, or you’ll find yourself behind.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1735
“He that would live in peace & at ease, Must not speak all he knows or judge all he sees.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1736
“Well done is better than well said.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1737
“A right Heart exceeds all.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1739
“What you seem to be, be really.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1744
“A true Friend is the best Possession.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1744
“No gains without pains.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1745
“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander Time; for that’s the Stuff Life is made of.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1746
“Lost Time is never found again.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1747
“When you’re good to others, you’re best to yourself.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1748
“Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1748
“Hide not your Talents, they for Use were made. What’s a Sun-Dial in the shade!”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1750
“Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack’d, and never well mended.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1750
“What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1751
“Haste makes Waste.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1753
“Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1738
“It is better to take many Injuries than to give one.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1735
“Wish not so much to live long as to live well.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1738
I found this really good article about Benjamin Franklin here :
The 5 Biggest Mistakes That Make You Unlikeable, According to Ben FranklinThese mistakes would have made people dislike you in 1730, and they'll make people dislike you today.
Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790) was an American polymath who was active as a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political philosopher.
Among the leading intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, a drafter and signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and the first United States postmaster general.
As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his studies of electricity. As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among others.
In the words of historian Henry Steele Commager, "In Franklin could be merged the virtues of Puritanism without its defects, the illumination of the Enlightenment without its heat." Franklin has been called "the most accomplished American of his age and the most influential in inventing the type of society America would become."
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin
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