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A quotation from Franklin

In Christmas feasting pray take care;
Let not your table be a Snare;
But with the Poor God’s Bounty share.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard Improved (1748 ed.)

More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/35…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benjaminfranklin #benfranklin #franklin #poorrichard #poorrichardsalamanac #charity #Christmas #feast #giving #gluttony #needy #poor #sharing

Great American gardeners | Coastside Magazine Online https://www.allforgardening.com/1881676/great-american-gardeners-coastside-magazine-online-3/ #agriculture #BenjaminFranklin #crop #farmer #garden #gardener #gardening #JohnAdams #manure #NativeSpecies #NaturalEnvironment #plant #PlantAgriculture #PrimarySector #seed #soil #SoilFertility #UnitedStates #WashingtonState

Great American gardeners | Coastside Magazine Online https://www.allforgardening.com/1881676/great-american-gardeners-coastside-magazine-online-3/ #agriculture #BenjaminFranklin #crop #farmer #garden #gardener #gardening #JohnAdams #manure #NativeSpecies #NaturalEnvironment #plant #PlantAgriculture #PrimarySector #seed #soil #SoilFertility #UnitedStates #WashingtonState

Great American gardeners | Coastside Magazine Online https://www.allforgardening.com/1881284/great-american-gardeners-coastside-magazine-online-2/ #agriculture #BenjaminFranklin #crop #farmer #garden #gardener #gardening #JohnAdams #manure #NativeSpecies #NaturalEnvironment #plant #PlantAgriculture #PrimarySector #seed #soil #SoilFertility #UnitedStates #WashingtonState

Great American gardeners | Coastside Magazine Online https://www.allforgardening.com/1881284/great-american-gardeners-coastside-magazine-online-2/ #agriculture #BenjaminFranklin #crop #farmer #garden #gardener #gardening #JohnAdams #manure #NativeSpecies #NaturalEnvironment #plant #PlantAgriculture #PrimarySector #seed #soil #SoilFertility #UnitedStates #WashingtonState

Great American gardeners | Coastside Magazine Online https://www.allforgardening.com/1881165/great-american-gardeners-coastside-magazine-online/ #agriculture #BenjaminFranklin #crop #farmer #garden #gardener #gardening #JohnAdams #manure #NativeSpecies #NaturalEnvironment #plant #PlantAgriculture #PrimarySector #seed #soil #SoilFertility #UnitedStates #WashingtonState

Great American gardeners | Coastside Magazine Online https://www.allforgardening.com/1881165/great-american-gardeners-coastside-magazine-online/ #agriculture #BenjaminFranklin #crop #farmer #garden #gardener #gardening #JohnAdams #manure #NativeSpecies #NaturalEnvironment #plant #PlantAgriculture #PrimarySector #seed #soil #SoilFertility #UnitedStates #WashingtonState

A quotation from Franklin

He is not well-bred, that cannot bear Ill-Breeding in others.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard Improved (1748 ed.)

More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/32…

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While, Benjamin Franklin never met Beethoven, He did know both Mozart and Johann Adolph Hasse while living in Paris. It’s said that the three men had a great mural respect for each other.
#BaroqueSun #BenjaminFranklin #GlassArmonica

While, Benjamin Franklin never met Beethoven, He did know both Mozart and Johann Adolph Hasse while living in Paris. It’s said that the three men had a great mural respect for each other.
#BaroqueSun #BenjaminFranklin #GlassArmonica

And finally, “L’Armonica” AKA “Ah Perché col Canto Mio” is a cantata composed by Italian-German composer, operatic tenor and music educator Johann Adolph Hasse (https://youtu.be/igxoowwQoOE?is=HJm-AqadThO4mU0N). It was composed around 1769 which was only around 10yrs after Benjamin Franklin invented the Glass Armonica!
#BaroqueSun #JohannAdolphHasse #GlassArmonica #BenjaminFranklin

And finally, “L’Armonica” AKA “Ah Perché col Canto Mio” is a cantata composed by Italian-German composer, operatic tenor and music educator Johann Adolph Hasse (https://youtu.be/igxoowwQoOE?is=HJm-AqadThO4mU0N). It was composed around 1769 which was only around 10yrs after Benjamin Franklin invented the Glass Armonica!
#BaroqueSun #JohannAdolphHasse #GlassArmonica #BenjaminFranklin

It was rumored that The Glass Armonica could cause listeners and the instrumentalists themselves to lose their minds. Once word began to spread they were smashed en masse to protect audiences and musicians alike. At the time no one connected the dots between the fact that many Glass Armonicas were made out of lead glass and painted with lead paint 😑
#BaroqueSun #BenjaminFranklin #GlassArmonica

It was rumored that The Glass Armonica could cause listeners and the instrumentalists themselves to lose their minds. Once word began to spread they were smashed en masse to protect audiences and musicians alike. At the time no one connected the dots between the fact that many Glass Armonicas were made out of lead glass and painted with lead paint 😑
#BaroqueSun #BenjaminFranklin #GlassArmonica

First up is a little clip on the Glass Armonica (https://youtu.be/57-JQlwRDqc?is=b-gxMyDw4zkeDr0B) from Ken Burns’s 2022 documentary about Benjamin Franklin. You can watch it for free here (https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/benjamin-franklin) if you have PBS Passport (PLEASE GET PBS Passport: https://www.pbs.org/explore/passport/)
#BaroqueSun #BenjaminFranklin #GlassArmonica #4thOfJuly

First up is a little clip on the Glass Armonica (https://youtu.be/57-JQlwRDqc?is=b-gxMyDw4zkeDr0B) from Ken Burns’s 2022 documentary about Benjamin Franklin. You can watch it for free here (https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/benjamin-franklin) if you have PBS Passport (PLEASE GET PBS Passport: https://www.pbs.org/explore/passport/)
#BaroqueSun #BenjaminFranklin #GlassArmonica #4thOfJuly

DATE: July 2, 2026 at 07:04AM
SOURCE: SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY.ORG

TITLE: America 500? What the U.S. Will Look Like in Another 250 Years

URL: http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?from=rss_feed&id=190732&url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/america-250-us-futurists-predictions-centuries-ahead/

Source: CBS News - U.S. News

Just four years after he signed the Declaration of Independence—but before the colonies would win the war that granted their freedom—Benjamin Franklin was already thinking about the future. Franklin wrote a letter in 1780 to his close friend Joseph Priestley, the scientist who discovered oxygen, lamenting being born at the beginning of the scientific revolution. He dreamed not just of what the U.S. and world would look like in 250 years but...

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DATE: July 2, 2026 at 07:04AM
SOURCE: SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY.ORG

TITLE: America 500? What the U.S. Will Look Like in Another 250 Years

URL: http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?from=rss_feed&id=190732&url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/america-250-us-futurists-predictions-centuries-ahead/

Source: CBS News - U.S. News

Just four years after he signed the Declaration of Independence—but before the colonies would win the war that granted their freedom—Benjamin Franklin was already thinking about the future. Franklin wrote a letter in 1780 to his close friend Joseph Priestley, the scientist who discovered oxygen, lamenting being born at the beginning of the scientific revolution. He dreamed not just of what the U.S. and world would look like in 250 years but...

URL: http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?from=rss_feed&id=190732&url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/america-250-us-futurists-predictions-centuries-ahead/

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For more Benjamin Franklin fun, I’ll have a playlist of music from Baroque era composers that features Franklin’s invention the Glass Armonica on #BaroqueSun this Sunday evening (info⤵️)
#RetroView #4thOfJuly #BenjaminFranklin

RE: https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/116836561724818229

For more Benjamin Franklin fun, I’ll have a playlist of music from Baroque era composers that features Franklin’s invention the Glass Armonica on #BaroqueSun this Sunday evening (info⤵️)
#RetroView #4thOfJuly #BenjaminFranklin

A quotation from Franklin

A Slip of the Foot you may soon recover:
But a Slip of the Tongue you may never get over.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1747 ed.)

More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/84…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklin #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #poorrichard #poorrichardsalmanac #proverb #error #fall #gaffe #indiscretion #misspeaking #slip #slipofthetongue

A quotation from Franklin

A Slip of the Foot you may soon recover:
But a Slip of the Tongue you may never get over.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1747 ed.)

More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/84…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklin #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #poorrichard #poorrichardsalmanac #proverb #error #fall #gaffe #indiscretion #misspeaking #slip #slipofthetongue

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
-- Benjamin Franklin

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BenjaminFranklin #Freedom #Security

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Okefenokee #Swamp #Canoe #Georgia

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
-- Benjamin Franklin

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BenjaminFranklin #Freedom #Security

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Okefenokee #Swamp #Canoe #Georgia

A quotation from Ben Franklin

What is Serving God? ’Tis doing Good to Man.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1747 ed.)

More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/84…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklin #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #poorrichard #poorrichardsalmanac #charity #divinewill #doinggood #God #loveyourneighbor #philanthropy #piety #service #virtue

From Franklin to Father’s Day: Passing the Philly Fan Torch https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/925475/ #2008Phillies #2018SuperBowl #BenjaminFranklin #eagles #Father'sDay #fathers #Football #JoeFrazier #LaSalleExplorers #LaSalle #LaSalleUniversity #MLB #NFL #Philadelphia #PhiladelphiaEagles #PhiladelphiaPhillies #PhiladelphiaEagles #Phillies #SuperBowlLII #SuperBowlLIX #ThePalestra #WestChesterUniversity

@afelia Warum nicht alle Krankenhäuser? Ich sehe hier links und rechts ältere Mitpatienten in ihren Zimmern leiden. In dieser Hitze fühlt man sich hier menschenunwürdig behandelt. Es gibt nicht einmal Standventilatoren aber dehydrierte Menschen.
Ich schätze, privat bezahlte Zimmer sind anders ausgestattet.
#Charite #UKB #BenjaminFranklin #Warken #Gesundheitswesen #Gesundheitsreform

@afelia Warum nicht alle Krankenhäuser? Ich sehe hier links und rechts ältere Mitpatienten in ihren Zimmern leiden. In dieser Hitze fühlt man sich hier menschenunwürdig behandelt. Es gibt nicht einmal Standventilatoren aber dehydrierte Menschen.
Ich schätze, privat bezahlte Zimmer sind anders ausgestattet.
#Charite #UKB #BenjaminFranklin #Warken #Gesundheitswesen #Gesundheitsreform

A quotation from Ben Franklin

He that won’t be counsell’d, can’t be help’d.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1747 ed.)

More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/84…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #poorrichard #poorrichardsalamanac #advice #assistance #counsel #counseling #determination #help #inflexibility #obstinacy #pigheadedness #resolution #standalone #stubbornness #tenacity

How Benjamin Franklin stopped colonial money counterfeiters with ahead-of-his-time science

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/how-benjamin-franklin-stopped-colonial-money-counterfeiters-with-ahead-of-his-time-science/

How Benjamin Franklin stopped colonial money counterfeiters with ahead-of-his-time science

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/how-benjamin-franklin-stopped-colonial-money-counterfeiters-with-ahead-of-his-time-science/

Next month, the flower of Philadelphia's youth will be sacrificed to the city's dark & terrible master: the deathless Lich-King, Franklin.

#Philadelphia #BenjaminFranklin

A quotation from Ben Franklin

Better is a little with content than much with contention.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1747 ed.)

More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/84…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklin #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #poorrichard #poorrichardsalamanac #conflict #contention #contentment #discontent #moderation #possessions #riches #satisfaction #sufficient #trouble #wealth

A quotation from Ben Franklin

Better is a little with content than much with contention.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1747 ed.)

More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/84…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklin #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #poorrichard #poorrichardsalamanac #conflict #contention #contentment #discontent #moderation #possessions #riches #satisfaction #sufficient #trouble #wealth

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: ✍️🎭 #BenjaminFranklin kept creating fictional characters – Silence Dogood, Poor Richard Saunders, Sidi Mehemet Ibrahim – to publish opinions his real name couldn’t carry.

These alter egos let the Founding Father critique authority, satirize slavery apologists, and experiment with #ideas, all from behind a mask. Historian David Waldstreicher says it gave Franklin "the most freedom" he ever knew.

👉 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/among-all-great-things-benjamin-franklin-invented-discovered-alter-egos-gave-him-most-freedom-180988824/

#history #inventions #satire #pseudonyms #philadelphia #london #freespeech #abolition #almanac #printing #science #media

The rarest known Masonic book in the USA is the 1734 edition of Anderson's "Constitutions," printed by Benjamin Franklin. Seventeen copies of the original edition are known to exist.

#Freemasonry #Freimaurerei #Masonry #2B1ASK1 #History #Literature #USA #BenjaminFranklin #publishing

The rarest known Masonic book in the USA is the 1734 edition of Anderson's "Constitutions," printed by Benjamin Franklin. Seventeen copies of the original edition are known to exist.

#Freemasonry #Freimaurerei #Masonry #2B1ASK1 #History #Literature #USA #BenjaminFranklin #publishing

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: Long before flying his kite, #BenjaminFranklin was experimenting with materials to stop counterfeiters from faking #colonial paper #money. 💵

Centuries later, scientists at #NotreDame used advanced microscopes to analyze hundreds of surviving bills and found Franklin was using graphite-based ink instead of common soot ink, and embedding tiny mica particles into the #paper that shimmered when tilted. He even printed leaf vein patterns as unique anti-counterfeiting marks. 🔎

👉 https://theconversation.com/we-analyzed-paper-money-printed-by-ben-franklin-to-uncover-his-anti-counterfeiting-techniques-and-materials-innovations-282943

#counterfeit #history #printing #pennsylvania #philadelphia #science #engineering #invention #currency

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: Long before flying his kite, #BenjaminFranklin was experimenting with materials to stop counterfeiters from faking #colonial paper #money. 💵

Centuries later, scientists at #NotreDame used advanced microscopes to analyze hundreds of surviving bills and found Franklin was using graphite-based ink instead of common soot ink, and embedding tiny mica particles into the #paper that shimmered when tilted. He even printed leaf vein patterns as unique anti-counterfeiting marks. 🔎

👉 https://theconversation.com/we-analyzed-paper-money-printed-by-ben-franklin-to-uncover-his-anti-counterfeiting-techniques-and-materials-innovations-282943

#counterfeit #history #printing #pennsylvania #philadelphia #science #engineering #invention #currency

A quotation from Ben Franklin

One to destroy, is Murder by the Law,
   And Gibbets keep the lifted Hand in Awe.
To murder Thousands, takes a specious Name,
   War’s glorious Art, and gives immortal Fame.
O great Alliance! O divine Renown!
   With Death and Pestilence to share the Crown!
When Men extol a wild Destroyer’s Name,
   Earth’s Builder and Preserver they blaspheme.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1747 ed.)

More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/84…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #belligerence #blasphemy #destruction #fame #God #killing #leadership #murder #renown #war #warmaking #warmongering

A quotation from Franklin

Pride and the Gout,
Are seldom cur’d throughout.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1747 ed.)

More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/84…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklin #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #cure #gout #illness #pride #recovery #sickness

A quotation from Ben Franklin

A Mob’s a Monster; Heads enough, but no Brains.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1747 ed.)

More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/16…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #democracy #emotion #intelligence #mob #mobrule #mobviolence #people #throng

Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
-- Benjamin Franklin

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BenjaminFranklin #Life #Success

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #TheMaze #Dollhouse #Canyonlands #Utah

Tim was so learned he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
-- Benjamin Franklin

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BenjaminFranklin #Ignorance

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

This is one of my absolute favorite #paintings, #BenjaminFranklin Drawing #Electricity From The Sky. It suggests a certain virtue I wish was more celebrated in modern #America.

One today is worth two tomorrows.
-- Benjamin Franklin

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BenjaminFranklin #Life

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #GoblinValley #Utah

Benjamin Franklin was in Saratoga on his way to Canada in 1776 when he began to have doubts about whether he and two colleagues could salvage the faltering American invasion of the British colony.

#OTD April 13, 1776, he wrote John Hancock, then president of the Continental Congress, saying the latest information he had received made him think “we shall be able to effect little there.”

He was right. His mission failed. Canada did not become the 14th colony.

#hedidnotconquer #canada #history #books #americanrevolution #benjaminfranklin @dundurnpress

Opportunities to lose focus

The first element to consider when creating a more realistic “ideal day” is that unlike Franklin, we have many more places to be and many more opportunities to lose focus. We have to account for this, not fight against it.

~ Maneesh Sethi

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Desires

It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

~ Benjamin Franklin

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Reflection: Day 55

CHASTITY — “Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another’s peace or reputation.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

Week three was about the practice itself of reflection; becoming aware explicitly that we are— well, practicing being aware.

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Reflection: Day 53

TRANQUILLITY — “Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

We’re in our final week together. The first week was about creating space. 2 minutes: Pause life. Read. Think. Resume life.

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