Behold the rain which

Beauty God Heart. Default Author Social Media Wallpaper. Previous Next Benjamin Franklin. Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life.

Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake. We can ignore even pleasure. Previous Next. Share this quote on your favorite Social Media. Click the buttons below! Embed this Quote. Embed this Quote Embed this quote text, quote image or both quote and text on your website, blog or BB Forums using the codes below.

Copy and paste the code showing below anywhere on your website where you want to show this quote. Code to Embed Quote Image Only: Code to Embed Quote Text Only: Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that god loves us, and loves to see us happy. Benjamin Franklin. This statement, referring to the importance of libraries, did not come from Franklin himself.

The author of this quote was not Benjamin Franklin, but fellow publisher John Webbe. But can we be taught to prize them too much?

Or how can we prize them equal to their value, if we do not know their intrinsic worth, and that they are not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature? Franklin never penned this statement, which is frequently attributed to him nonetheless. 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.

It follows a quote from Franklin, hence the attribution confusion.