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Reading makes a full man, medi...

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

The purpose of money was to pu...

The purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

So convenient a thing to be a ...

So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

The heart of a fool is in his ...

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

There cannot be good living wh...

There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Laws without morals are in vai...

Laws without morals are in vain.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Some men grow mad by studying ...

Some men grow mad by studying much to know,
But who grows mad by studying good to grow.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

A Man of Knowledge like a rich...

A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

I have never seen the Philosop...

I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

To inquisitive minds like your...

To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

A new truth is a truth, an old...

A new truth is a truth, an old error is an error.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

In going on with these Experim...

In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If there is no other Use discover'd of Electricity, this, however, is something considerable, that it may help to make a vain Man humble.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Let the experiment be made....

Let the experiment be made.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Slavery is such an atrocious d...

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

I have conceived a higher opin...

I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension seems as quick, their memory as strong, and their docility in every respect equal to that of white children.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Slavery is ...an atrocious deb...

Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

The good Education of Youth ha...

The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private Families and of Common-wealths. Almost all Governments have therefore made it a principal Object of their Attention, to establish and endow with proper Revenues, such Seminaries of Learning, as might supply the succeeding Age with Men qualified to serve the Publick with Honour to themselves, and to their Country.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Indeed the general natural Ten...

Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness of Virtue of all Kinds, Publick Spirit, Fortitude.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

A fine genius in his own count...

A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

The United States Constitution...

The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

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