Dash For Power

These Brain Tips were from Benjamin Franklins final 1757-58 Almanacks- his elder wisest thoughts.

In his October and November 1757 Almanacks, Franklin (through the voice always of poor “Richard Saunders”), has wise sentences, and more lengthy paragraphs, some times in a rhyme difficult to follow. But these are timeless, and cause me to think of him walking with his dog through autumn leaves and reflecting on how life seems. For a while, his dog will stay home in Philadelphia while he works his intellectual and persuasive powers on English and French courts in the following years. But these are the gentle wise comfortable thoughts of a man with his dog:

• “Proportion your Charity to the Strength or your Estate, or God will proportion your Estate to the Weakness of your Charity.”

• “Be rarely warm in censure or in Praise; Few Men deserve our Passion either ways; For half the World floats ‘twixt Good and Ill, As Chance disposes Objects, these the will.

• “To be happy, they tell us we must be more content. Right. But they do not teach us how we may become content. Poor Richard shall give a short Good Rule for that. To be content, look backward on those who posess less than you, not forward on those who possess more. “

• “If this does not make you content, you don’t deserve to be happy.”

• “Learning is a valuable thing in the affairs of this life, but of infinitely more important is Godliness, as is tends to not only make us happy here but hereafter.”

• “…Our good or bad Works shall remain for ever, recorded in the Archives of Eternity”

• “The borrower is a Slave to the Lender; the Security to both.”

• “Singularity in the right, hath ruined many: Happy those who are convinced of the general Opinion.”

• “Ambition to be greater and richer, merely that a Man may have it in his Power to do more Service to his Friends and thePublick, is of a quiet orderly Kind, pleased if it succeeds, resigned if it fails.”

• “But the Ambition that has Itself only in View, is restless, turbulent, regardless of publick Peace, of general interest, and the secret Maker of most Mischiefs, between Nations, Parties, Friends and Neighbors.”

• In Franklin’s day, there was only natural food products available, we hadn’t “evolved” to place melamine and lead in our foods and soil, so today Dr. Franklin you would be able to trust apdempsey, or Petplanet2U, both who maintained 100% customer approval ratings through Amazon. In this past troubling year, that is superb accomplishment.

And final walk with the dog, then to bed. Derek Dashwood

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