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    Best Quotes from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin By Benjamin Franklin with Page Numbers

    Last updated on 2023/11/25
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    Part 1 | Quotes from Pages 7-39

    ...the conducing means I made use of, which with the blessing of God so well succeeded, my posterity may like to know, as they may find some of them suitable to their own situations, and therefore fit to be imitated.
    Franklin articulates a powerful message about the value of learning from others' experiences. He acknowledges that his successes are not solely due to his efforts but also the blessings he received. By documenting his life and the means that led him to success, he provides a roadmap for future generations, encouraging them to adapt those lessons to their own contexts.
    And therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life.
    Franklin's recognition of human vanity as a

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    Benjamin Franklin’s List of Virtues for “Clean” Living

    These names of virtues, with their precepts, were:

    1.: Temperance: Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2.: Silence: Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3.: Order: Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4.: Resolution: Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you lösa. 5.: Frugality: Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; inom. e., waste nothing. 6.: Industry: Lose no time; be always employ’d in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. 7.: Sincerity: Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly; and, if you speak, speak accordingly. 8.: Justice: Wrong none bygd doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty. 9.: Moderation: Avoid extreams; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve. 10.: Cleanliness: Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, cloaths, or habi

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    page 42

    But it so happened that my intention of writing and publishing this comment was never fulfilled. I did, indeed, from time to time, put down short hints of the sentiments, reasonings, etc., to be made use of in it, some of which I have still by me: But the necessary close Attention to private Business in the earlier part of Life, and public Business since, have occasioned my postponing it. For it being connected in my Mind with a great and extensive Projectthat require the whole man to execute, and which an unforeseen Secession of Employs prevented my attending to, it has hitherto remain'd unfinish'd.

    In this piece it was my design to explain and enforce this doctrine, that vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful, the nature of man alone considered; that it was, therefore, every one's interest to be virtuous who wished to be happy even in this world; and I should, from this circumstance (there being always in the
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