He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Benjamin FranklinReading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
Benjamin FranklinThose things that hurt, instruct.
Benjamin FranklinGenius without education is like silver in the mine.
Benjamin FranklinMy refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chided for my singularity, but, with this lighter repast, I made the greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension. Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.
Benjamin FranklinTag: vegetarianism vegan carnist flesh meat meat-is-murder
To cease to think creatively is to cease to live
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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Benjamin FranklinIf we look back into history for the character of present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another. The first Protestants of the Church of England, blamed persecution in the Roman church, but practised it against the Puritans: these found it wrong in the Bishops, but fell into the same practice themselves both here and in New England.
[Letter to the London Packet, 3 June 1772]
Tag: history bishops church-of-england intolerance new-england pagans persecution protestants puritans religious-persecution roman-catholic
In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.
Benjamin FranklinWithout Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.
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