The Invisible Mentor

This is a very lighthearted look at Benjamin Franklin who offered so much to the world. Franklin established the first public lending library and the first fire department in Pennsylvania, a university and a hospital. I had fun creating the tweets. At the end of the tweets is a 29-minute YouTube video, which is worth watching if you want to learn more about the man. I also recommend The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, which isn’t an easy read since it is written in old English. But take the time to slog through the book because it will inspire you. Here are the 10 tweets.

@franklin He that once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged

@avilbeckford RT @franklin After getting the first hundred £s, it’s easier to get the second. [I guess these days it would b 1st million]

@franklin Partnerships often end in quarrels, but I was happy in this, that mine carry’d on and ended amicably

@franklin I’m known as a scientist, an inventor, a statesman, a printer, a philosopher, a musician, and an economist

@franklin I wanted 2 write 4 my brother’s paper & knew he wouldn’t let me. Cr8ed a fictional widow “Silence Good” & wrote under that name

@franklin If u want to learn abt me watch the video Walter Isaacson: Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, click here or see below

@franklin I invented bifocals, lightning rod, a simple odometer& furnace stove

@franklin Lack of formal education shouldn’t prevent success, look at what I’ve accomplished, respected over the world & I’m self-educated

@franklin Learn, Learn, Learn and when you are done learning Learn some more. Feed Your Mind!

@franklin Looking back on my life, today I would be considered a workaholic but I thrived on work and that’s why I accomplished so much

Walter Isaacson: “Benjamin Franklin: An American Life” (YouTube Video)

Source:

The Autobiography and Other Writings Benjamin Franklin (I read both this and The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin)

Articles of Interest:

Benjamin Franklin and the “Wagon Affair” of 1755, William and Mary Quarterly, April 2009, Volume 66, Number 2 (Contains information on some long lost Franklin Letters, which we found recently)

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