Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Grievances cannot be redressed until they are known; and they cannot be known but through complaints and petitions. If these are deemed… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Remember this saying, The good payer is lord of another man's purse. He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
And we daily in our experiments electrise bodies plus or minus, as we think proper. [These terms we may use till your… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
![“And we daily in our experiments electrise bodies plus or minus, as we think proper. [These terms we may use till your Philosophers give us better.] To electrise plus or minus, no more needs to be known than this, that the parts of the Tube or Sphere, that are rubb'd, do, in the Instant of…” quote by Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4cf/benjamin-franklin-65_body_and-we-daily-in-our-experiments-electris_2159838.jpg)
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