富兰克林自传读后感

富兰克林生于1706年1月2日,由于他出生在贫寒的小商人家庭.他几次被-迫辍学在小商店里打杂.后来又在哥哥的印刷厂当学徒,最后自己在费城开了一家印刷所.他在这期间过着艰苦的生活,住得简陋,吃得简单.但是却一直有一种非常强大的精神支撑着他.除了辛勤工作之外,他还始终怀着强烈的求知的渴望和热情,想尽一切办法,挤出一切时间和一切金钱来读书和买书.

在他看来,读书是他打开幸福成功之门的钥匙.书是无价之宝,是他最大的快乐.正是因为如此,他同小了法语,意大利语,西班牙语和拉丁语.

成功背后却是无比的艰辛,最后当上了美国的总统,而且也是一个伟大的发明家.他发明了新式火炉,避雷针,高架取书器,自动烤肉机,三轮钟等.

我对富兰克林的感叹就是:一分耕耘一分才.他付出了艰苦的努力就品尝到了成功的果实.他为全美国人们创造了幸福.我们应该学习富兰克林的这种精神.富兰克林自传在本站电子书栏目名人传记下有提供.

第一次读富兰克林自传是在中学，看到一半的时候他还在搞印刷就没看下去，后来是在网上看，但由于我不习惯在电脑上看长篇的小说，所以一直没看完，想买一本过来，可义乌这种地方唯一一个不错的新华书店也只有一本，还是比较旧，我不想买一本自己很喜欢的旧书，所以一直没有买。

昨天，正好没事，去新华书店，那本旧书还在，就拿起来一口气读完，对于富兰克林遵守的十三种德行，我感觉对每个人都适合，我自己想做到的首先是节制，俭朴。

关于节制我一直在这样做，因为很小的时候看洛克菲勒中年患病后，食从来半饱，并且活到九十几的高龄，还积聚了巨额的财富，后来看《商道》中戒盈杯也曾挽救过林尚活的命，对饮食就更加注意，包括倒水喝酒都从来不会太满，最重要的是食不过饱还可以保持一个比较清醒的大脑。

寡言我做的也不好，以后也需要多加注意。

俭朴我做的并不很好，有时候总感觉消费可以刺激自己的需求，进一步刺激自己追求更高更好的东西，但目前看来这是一种非常错误的做法，以后会多加注意(因为即使是一元钱，也可积少成多，一直消费最终会导致自己保持收支平衡而没有足够的启动资金)。

清洁我做的是最糟糕的(这方面我现在还没打算去做，这是一个非常久的习惯了，可能需要太多的时间，并且有时候会与我的时间观造成冲突)

其它几点秩序，勤劳，诚恳，正直做的还自己感觉不错。

对富兰克林非常重视公共事业深有感触，尤其是教育，正如我去新华书店找如此好的一本书而却很难以找到一样，如果有一个图书馆，那就会好的多，曾记得在杭州新华书店看一本《王道》，十几本都被读者看的黑黑的，这个损失不应该由书店来承担，但一个人买一本又很浪

费资源，因此一个国家一个城市，图书馆是首先应该投资的，并且挑选比较著名及有影响的书多放一些，全民普及文化教育。义乌不能创造超级富豪我感觉与此也有很大的关系，义乌虽然宝马奔驰很多，但是由于文化的限制，大多观念并不新，超级富豪几乎没有。

另外对富兰克林遇到的总督基思印像非常深刻，因为感觉他太像自己转载自百分网，请保留此标记遇到过的一个人，从来不实现自己的承诺，但非常喜欢许诺，也进一步告诉我自己的原始积累的重要性，凭空的依靠可能把自己带到绝境，就如富兰克林去伦敦采购印刷器材那样陷信困境。

他也告诉我媒体的力量，默多克都承认富兰克林为媒界做的最成功的人，我也这样认为，掌握并好好的利用媒体可以产生无可言喻的力量，也看到富兰克林早期并不谦虚，我也经常犯类似的错误，辩论的时候没有必要以非常强势的压倒别人，尽管在当时可能会给自己带来一定的快感，但一定要体会别人的感受，这点以后也是我非常应该注意的。

富兰克林能在如此多的领域做出对世界产生影响的事，应该很大程度上依靠他的习惯，非常遗憾不能看到他后半生的传记，也许他的后半生我更感兴趣一些，其实人往往这样，喜欢看到辉煌的一面，就像中学的时候不愿意去看他在印刷厂受苦一样，而现在愿意认真去体会，这也许是自己的一些进步，成熟。

以后需要在：寡言，谦虚，俭朴方面多加注意，去除这些坏的习惯，也许对自己的成长会有很大的帮助。

也推荐读者去认真的读这些书，从中理解到自己需要的东西，但有一点，我认为是必要的，就是每个人都应该通过此书，更加明白教育等公共事业对人类以至一个城市，国家的影响，也能从自身真正的去做。

本杰明?富兰克林是一位享誉世界的发明家、作家、外交家和独立革命的领导人之一。他不仅让美国人民引以为豪，而且是世界人民的骄傲。

富兰克林的出生之地，在当时是英法殖民地，而他又是一个穷苦人家的孩子，发展才能的机会是很少的。10岁时，他就因为家里经济困难辍学。12岁开始，他在哥哥经营的印刷所里当学徒。17岁时，他就独自到费城自谋出路。经过千辛万苦，他终于开办了自己的印刷所，并受到大家的一致好评。他通过自己超群的技艺、敬业的精神和为人处世的美德使自己的生意蒸蒸日上。

富兰克林十分重视自己的美德。因此，他给自己提出了13个要求，分别是：节制、沉默寡言、生活有序、决心、俭朴、勤勉、诚恳、公正、中庸、清洁、平静、贞洁和谦逊。他一直在尽力地做到这些，尽管他也很难完全满足要求，但他还是坚持不懈。

读到这一段时，我不禁为这位世界伟人给自己提出的高要求而惊叹。我想：做一个品德完美的人的确不容易，但是只有努力做了，才有做好的希望。

富兰克林曾说过这样一句话：“在我看来，能够给人类带来幸福的，与其说是千载难逢的巨大的幸运，倒不如说是每时每刻发生在他们身边的琐细的方便。”我认为，这句很有启发性

的话提醒了人们：不要只顾那些百年不遇的幸运，而忽略了身边的小事;这句话也很好地解释了富兰克林的那些造福人类的发明和他成为发明家的原因。

读完了整本书，我想：今天，我们的生活是无比幸福的，时代给予了我们物质上的丰富多彩。我们不必再像富兰克林小时候那样，承受因为家庭困难而辍学的痛苦;我们不必再像他那样，为了省钱买书不吃荤食;我们更不必再像他那样，小小年纪就背井离乡到异国他乡去自谋生路??因此，我们更应该刻苦向上、积极奋发、热爱生活、追求充实高尚的人生!

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How It All Goes Down

In Part 1, Franklin talks about his reasons for writing the Autobiography, saying that since you can't live your life over again, the next best thing is to recapture it by writing it down. He describes his early life in Boston, his love for reading, and his job training. Franklin apprentices as a printer to his brother James, but he hates working for him, and runs away to Philadelphia at age sixteen.

In Philadelphia, Franklin begins working for a printer named Keimer. The governor, Sir William Keith, offers to set Franklin up on his own as a printer and sends him to England to get supplies. Once in England, though, Franklin finds out that Keith's a liar and a cheat – and he's stuck in London without money or a way to get back to America. Franklin works hard at Watts' printing shop, learns about his craft, and makes some important

connections. After he saves up enough money, he returns to America with his friend Mr. Denham, who's offered him a job.

Franklin works hard for Denham until his employer dies, and then he has to go back to Keimer. That doesn't last long, because Franklin quits. He decides to start his own business with another former Keimer employee, Hugh Meredith. Even though there's competition, they get a couple of lucky breaks, like printing the Pennsylvania Gazette. After Meredith bows out, Franklin gets some contracts to print paper money, and his rival Keimer retires. As the business really starts to take off, Franklin marries his old flame Deborah Read. He also helps found a gentleman's club called the Junto, which is for

talking about and debating philosophical and scientific ideas. One of their first big projects is creating a subscription library. Franklin stops writing here because of the American Revolution.

Part 2 begins with Franklin writing from Passy, France, receiving letters from two of his

friends, Abel James and Benjamin Vaughan. They basically tell Franklin that he is awesome, that his life story is awesome, and he should keep writing it. Franklin's persuaded. Let's face it: we probably would be too.

He goes back to where he stopped in Part 1 and tells us more about how the Junto created the Library system, then about his personal work on achieving the virtues of modesty and thrift. Franklin writes a list of virtues and works on them daily. He says he doesn't go to church, but prays by himself: he leaves religion out of his virtue list and says he'll get to it later in a book called The Art of Virtue, which he never writes. He ends this section by saying pride is the hardest virtue to overcome, and he's still working on it.

Part 3 picks up five years later, with Franklin in Philadelphia. He writes Poor Richard's Almanac; it and his newspaper, the Pennsylvania Gazette, are really successful. His business continues to expand. Franklin develops his ideas about religion in two

encounters with preachers, both of whom he likes. The first, Samuel Hemphill, advocates virtue, but he's cast out by the public because he copies other guys' sermons in his own (yeah, that's plagiarism). The second, George Whitefield, is a great traveling preacher who, Franklin says, has amazing rhetoric. Franklin's club, the Junto, gets bigger and founds the first American fire department.

On a personal level, Franklin reconciles with his brother James, who's dying, and explains how his own son Francis died of smallpox. Professionally, Franklin is made General Assembly Clerk and Postmaster. He decides Pennsylvania needs two things: a better military and a better institution for higher education. Franklin writes Plain Truth, which calls for a better military, but turns down a position as colonel; however, he's still got a lot of influence over Pennsylvania's militia. He also talks about the problems Quakers face as pacifists trying to contribute to a system of defense. With the Junto, he founds the University of Pennsylvania. Franklin also works on creating the first American public

hospital, better paving for Philadelphia's streets, and a better system for dusting London's streets.

The French and Indian War is coming. Franklin writes a plan for uniting all the American colonies, but it doesn't go over well. They stay organized by individual colony. He helps General Edward Braddock get military supplies on credit from Pennsylvania citizens; since they don't know Braddock, Franklin has to put up collateral. This will bite him in the butt, though. In the middle of doing important military stuff – preparing for a battle at

Monongahela to take over Fort Duquesne – Braddock doesn't listen to Franklin's advice. They lose the battle and Braddock is killed. Luckily, he gives Franklin a large chunk of the money before that happens. Another general, Shirley, comes through for Franklin with more of the money. (Franklin never gets the rest.) Meanwhile, Franklin helps build forts in Pennsylvania for defense against the Native Americans and learns about the Moravian religion. He's briefly honored as a colonel, but turns down a position as general.

Franklin also has scientific success: he works on experiments in electricity with his friends

Peter Collinson and Ebenezer Kinnersley. Collinson tells the Royal Society about

Franklin's ideas, and his work is published. He gets into a scholarly fight with Abbé Nollet, who has competing ideas, but the scientific public promotes Franklin's as the best. He's made a member of the Royal Society.

The new governor, Denny, is having problems with the Pennsylvania Assembly. The

Assembly wants to pass a law that taxes colonists and Proprietors (the guys who own the colonies) more fairly to gather money for defending the colonies, part of which will be under the direction of General Loudon, but Denny won't sign it. Despite being delayed by Loudon, Franklin finally gets to go to London on behalf of the Assembly to work on mediation. (He never gets the rest of the money he covered for Braddock.)

In Part 4, Franklin consults with his friend Dr. Fothergill about the problem the Assembly's having and meets with Lord Granville, head of the King's privy council, about it. Lord Granville says the King makes laws just by talking, but Franklin argues that he can only approve/deny the colonists' laws once – he shouldn't be able to go back on his word. Lord Granville disagrees.

Franklin and the Proprietors meet at Thomas Penn's house to talk about the dispute, and Franklin has to argue with the other side's attorney, Ferdinand Paris. He and the colonists spend one year waiting for the decision. Meanwhile, the Assembly and Governor Denny finally agree on the bill. The Proprietors petition to keep the bill from happening, because they don't want to be tasked, and everyone goes to court. There, Lord Mansfield mediates the case, and everyone comes to an agreement.

The autobiography ends with the Assembly celebrating Franklin and firing Governor Denny. The colonists try to sue him, but don't succeed – he's too well connected.