The creation of the spiritual was no accident. It was a creation born of necessity, so that the slave might more adequately adjust himself to the conditions of the New World.


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So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reas...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the laz...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
When you're finished changing, you're finished.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
When in doubt, don't.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Lost time is never found again.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in...
BENJAMIN HARRISON
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
OWEN BENJAMIN
I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children'...
OWEN BENJAMIN