“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”
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“If I am not today all that I hope to be, yet I see Jesus, and that assures me that I shall one day be like Him. ”
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“Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint, but as I am not, if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a light-house.
[Letter to his wife, 17 July 1757, after narrowly avoiding a shipwreck; often misquoted as "Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."]”
― Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin Volume 2
[Letter to his wife, 17 July 1757, after narrowly avoiding a shipwreck; often misquoted as "Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."]”
― Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin Volume 2
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