Autobiography benjamin franklin self improvement quotes
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Best Quotes from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin By Benjamin Franklin with Page Numbers
Part 1 | Quotes from Pages 7-39
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Quotes
“In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had compleatly overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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“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 resolve. 5. FRUGALITY. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing. 6. INDUSTR
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He Helped Found amerika, But His Greatest utmaning Was Changing His Habits: Ben Franklin’s Plan for Personal Transformation
“It was about this time inom conceived the bold and arduous planerat arbete of arriving at moral perfection.” - Benjamin Franklin, The Art of Virtue.
Ben Franklin did not mess around when it came to transforming the world. A framer of one of the world’s most successful democracies, inventor of the Franklin stove, bifocal glasses, and author of Poor Richard’s Almanac. And as if that weren’t enough, he flew a kite with a metall key attached to it in an electrical storm as way to research the naturlig eller utan tillsats of lightning. These are all great gifts Franklin gave to the world during his life, but I’d like to draw our attention to a program he created for continual transformation and improvement of the self.
After years of reading and contemplation on the concept, Ben Franklin devised a modig strategy for self-improvement someone could practice through mo