Inspirational Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
topics: hmmm
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
“He that can have patience can have what he will.”
“You may delay, but time will not.”
“A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned”
“Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”
“In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.”
“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
topics: willful-ignorance
“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
“Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.”
topics: death
“I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.”
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. [misquote of a letter about wine, see quotes/831031]”
“How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!”
“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
“Hide not your talents, they for use were made, What's a sundial in the shade?”
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Benjamin Franklin was an important conservative figure in the American Restoration Movement, especially as the leading antebellum conservative in the northern United States branch of the movement. He is notable as the early and lifelong mentor of Daniel Sommer, whose support of the 1889 Sand Creek Declaration set in motion events which led to the formal division of the Churches of Christ from the Disciples of Christ in 1906.
According to contemporary biographies "His early religious training was according to the Methodist faith, though he never belonged to any church until he united with the Disciples."
In 1856, Franklin began to publish the ultra-conservative American Christian Review, which he published until his death in 1878. Its influence, initially considerable, was said to have waned following the American Civil War. Franklin undertook a rigorous program of publication correspondence, and traveling lectures which took him to "many" U. S. states and Canada.
Franklin's last move was to Anderson, Indiana, where he lived from 1864 until his death.