Latest Benjamin Franklin Quotes from Interviews

• My List of Virtues contain'd at first but twelve: But a Quaker Friend having kindly inform'd me that I was generally thought proud; that my Pride show'd itself frequently in Conversation; that I was not content with being in the right when discussing any Point, but was overbearing & rather insolent; of which he convinc'd me by mentioning several Instances; - I determined endeavouring to cure myself ..., and I added Humility to my List, giving an extensive Meaning to the Word.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Humility, Pride, Giving

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• Let me resolve to be virtuous, that I may be happy, that I may please Him, who is delighted to see me happy. Amen.

  Benjamin Franklin

  May, Amen, Resolve

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• In Truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order; and now I am grown old, and my Memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Memories, Order, Want

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• I believe that Man is not the most perfect Being but One, rather that as there are many Degrees of Beings his Inferiors, so there are many Degrees of Beings superior to him.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Believe, Men, Perfect

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• Conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Fountain, Obtaining, Conceiving

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• My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Father, Book, Library

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• Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least, you will by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Chance, Virtuous, Consequence

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• I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Father, School, Son

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