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» For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

» Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

» I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

» O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

» True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

» Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

» Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

» Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

» Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

» Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

» Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

» To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

» If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.

» The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

» To be like Christ is to be a Christian.

» It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.

» Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

» He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

» Kings in this should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.

» Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

» Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

» We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

» Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

» Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

» He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

» Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

» Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

» They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.

» Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

» Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

» Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

» Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

» He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

» Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

» Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

» Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

» The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

» Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

» Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

» Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

» A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.

» Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

» Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

» True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

» Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

» A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

» They have a right to censure that have a heart to help: the rest is cruelty, not justice.

» Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

» In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

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