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Truth Often Suffers More By The Heat Of Its Defenders Than The Arguments Of Its Opposers.

Passion Is The Mob Of The Man, That Commits A Riot Upon His Reason.

Neither Great Nor Good Things Were Ever Attained Without Loss And Hardships. Those That Would Reap And Not Labour, Must Faint With The Wind, And Perish In Disappointments; But An Hair Of My Head Shall Not Fall, Without The Providence Of My Father That Is Over All.

A Private Life Is To Be Preferrd; The Honour And Gain Of Publick Posts, Bearing No Proportion With The Comfort Of It.

For Though Death Be A Dark Passage, It Leads To Immortality, And That Is Recompence Enough For Suffering Of 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.

Death Cannot Kill What Never Dies.

To Have Religion Upon Authority, And Not Upon Conviction, Is Like A Finger-watch, To Be Set Forwards Or Backwards, As He Pleases That Has It In Keeping.

Force May Subdue, But Love Gains, And He That Forgives First Wins The Laurel.

Oppression Makes A Poor Country.

Not To Be Provok'd Is Best: But If Mov'd, Never Correct Till The Fume Is Spent; For Every Stroke Our Fury Strikes, Is Sure To Hit Our Selves At Last.

He Who Gives To The Poor, Lends To The Lord. But It May Be Said, Not Improperly, The Lord Lends To Us To Give To The Poor.

It Would Go A Long Way To Caution And Direct People In Their Use Of The World That They Would Better Studied And Known In The Creation Of It. For How Could Man Find The Confidence To Abuse It, While They Should See The Great Creator Stare Them In The Face, In All And Every Part Thereof?

Religion Itself Is Nothing Else But Love To God And Man. He That Lives In Love Lives In God, Says The Beloved Disciple: And To Be Sure A Man Can Live No Where Better.

Neither Despise Nor Oppose What Thou Dost Not Understand.

A Man, Like A Watch, Is To Be Valued For His Manner Of Going.

Less Judgment Than Wit Is More Sail Than Ballast.

No People Can Be Truly Happy... If Abridged Of The Freedom Of Their Consciences

We Are Apt To Be Very Pert At Censuring Others, Where We Will Not Endure Advice.

Where Example Keeps Pace With Authority, Power Hardly Fails To Be Obey'd.

Disappointments That Aren't A Result Of Our Own Foolishness Are A Testing Of Our Faith Or A Correction From Heaven, And It Is Our Own Fault If These Disappointments Don't Work For Our Own Good.

He That Has More Knowledge Than Judgment, Is Made For Another Man's Use More Than His Own.

The Truest End Of Life Is To Know The Life That Never Ends.

Knowledge Is The Treasure Of A Wise Man.

Between A Man And His Wife Nothing Ought To Rule But Love. Believe Nothing Against Another But On Good Authority; And Never Report What May Hurt Another, Unless It Be A Greater Hurt To Some Other To Conceal It.

Were The Superfluities Of A Nation Valued, And Made A Perpetual Tax Or Benevolence, There Would Be More Alms-houses Than Poor, Schools Than Scholars, And Enough To Spare For Government Besides.

Only Trust Thyself, And Another Shall Not Betray Thee.

Choose Thy Clothes By Thine Own Eyes, Not Another's.

It Is The Amends Of A Short And Troublesome Life, That Doing Good And Suffering Ill Entitles Man To A Longer And Better.

For As Men In Battle Are Continually In The Way Of Shot, So We, In This World, Are Ever Within The Reach Of Temptation.

Frugality Is Good If Liberality Be Joined With It. The First Is Leaving Off Superfluous Expenses; The Last Is Bestowing Them To The Benefit Of Others That Need. The First Without The Last Begets Covetousness; The Last Without The First Begets Prodigality.

The Public Must And Will Be Served.

In The Rush And Noise Of Life, As You Have Intervals, Step Home Within Yourselves And Be Still. Wait Upon God, And Feel His Good Presence; This Will Carry You Evenly Through Your Day's Business.

It Is Admirable To Consider How Many Millions Of People Come Into, And Go Out Of The World, Ignorant Of Themselves And Of The World They Have Lived In.

Covetousness Is The Greatest Of Monsters, As Well As The Root Of All Evil.

Inquire Often, But Judge Rarely, And Thou Wilt Not Often Be Mistaken.

Kings In This World Should Imitate God, Their Mercy Should Be Above Their Works.

Perfect Love Casteth Out Fear.

True Silence Is The Rest Of The Mind, And Is To The Spirit What Sleep Is To The Body, Nourishment And Refreshment.

Let Men Be Good, And The Government Cannot Be Bad.

Next To God, Thy Parents.

Love Is Indeed Heaven Upon Earth; Since Heaven Above Would Not Be Heaven Without It: For Where There Is Not Love; There Is Fear: But Perfect Love Casts Out Fear. And Yet We Naturally Fear Most To Offend What We Most Love.

Always Remember To Bound Thy Thoughts To The Present Occasion.

It Were Happy If We Studied Nature More In Natural Things; And Acted According To Nature, Whose Rules Are Few, Plain, And Most Reasonable.

Silence Is Wisdom Where Speaking Is Folly.

God Sends Us The Poor To Try Us.... And He That Refuses Them A Little Out Of The Great Deal That God Has Given Lays Up Poverty In Store For His Own Posterity.

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.

Content Not Thyself That Thou Art Virtuous In The General; For One Link Being Wanting, The Chain Is Defective.

It Is Certain That The Most Natural And Human Government Is That Of Consent, For That Binds Freely, ... When Men Hold Their Liberty By True Obedience To Rules Of Their Own Making.

If A Civil Word Or Two Will Render A Man Happy, He Must Be A Wretch Indeed Who Will Not Tell Them To Him.

Naked Truth Needs No Shift.

False-dealing Travels A Short Road, And Surely Detected.

Friendship Is The Union Of Spirits, A Marriage Of Hearts, And The Bond Thereof Virtue

Some Are So Very Studious Of Learning What Was Done By The Ancients That They Know Not How To Live With The Moderns.

For Death Is No More Than A Turning Of Us Over From Time To Eternity.

Where Judgment Has Wit To Express It, There's The Best Orator.

A Jealous Man Only Sees His Own Spectrum When He Looks Upon Other Men, And Gives His Character In Theirs.

He That Does Good For Good's Sake Seeks Neither Paradise Nor Reward, But He Is Sure Of Both In The End.

The Adventure Of The Christian Life Begins When We Dare To Do What We Would Never Tackle Without Christ.

O Lord, Help Me Not To Despise Or Oppose What I Do Not Understand.

Never Despise What You Don't Understand.

Sense Shines With A Double Luster When It Is Set In Humility. An Able Yet Humble Man Is A Jewel Worth A Kingdom.

Never Chide With Anger, But Instruction.

The Way, Like The Cross, Is Spiritual: That Is An Inward Submission Of The Soul To The Will Of God, As It Is Manifested By The Light Of Christ In The Consciences Of Men, Though It Be Contrary To Their Own Inclinations.

Levity Of Behavior, Always A Weakness, Is Far More Unbecoming In A Woman Than A Man.

Charity Is ... A Universal Remedy Against Discord, And An Holy Cement For Mankind.

That All Persons Living In This Province, Who Confess And Acknowledge The One Almighty And Eternal God, To Be The Creator, Upholder And Ruler Of The World; And That Hold Themselves Obliged In Conscience To Live Peaceably And Justly In Civil Society, Shall, In No Ways, Be Molested Or Prejudiced For Their Religious Persuasion, Or Practice, In Manners Of Faith And Worship, Nor Shall They Be Compelled, At Any Time, To Frequent Or Maintain Any Religious Worship, Place Or Ministry Whatever.

If Thou Wouldn't Conquer Thy Weakness Thou Must Not Gratify It.

We Are Inclined To Call Things By The Wrong Names. We Call Prosperity 'happiness', And Adversity 'misery' Eventhough Adversity Is The School Of Wisdom And Often The Way To Eternal Happiness.

The Smaller The Drink, The Clearer The Head, And The Cooler The Blood.

Hasty Resolutions Are Of The Nature Of Vows, And To Be Equally Avoided.

Do Good With What Thou Hast, Or It Will Do Thee No Good.

It Is Safer To Learn Than Teach; And Who Conceals His Opinion Has Nothing To Answer For.

The Humble, Meek, Merciful, And Just Are Everywhere Of One Religion; And When Death Has Taken Off The Mask They Will Know One Another, Though The Diverse Liveries They Wear Here Make Them Strangers.

A Wise Neuter Joins With Neither, But Uses Both As His Honest Interest Leads Him.

A Good End Cannot Sanctify Evil Means; Nor Must We Ever Do Evil, That Good May Come Of It.

Excess In Apparel Is Another Costly Folly. The Very Trimming Of The Vain World Would Clothe All The Naked Ones.

Be Sure That Religion Cannot Be Right That A Man Is The Worse For Having.

The Receipts Of Cookery Are Swelled To A Volume; But A Good Stomach Excels Them All.

For We Put The Power In The People.

A Man In Business Must Put Up Many Affronts If He Loves His Own Quiet.

Right Is Right, Even If Everyone Is Against It, And Wrong Is Wrong, Even If Everyone Is For It.

Religion Is Nothing Else But Love Of God And Man.

If It Be An Evil To Judge Rashly Or Untruly Any Single Man, How Much A Greater Sin It Is To Condemn A Whole People.

We Are Too Apt To Love Praise, But Not To Deserve It.

There Is Nothing Of Which We Are Apt To Be So Lavish As Of Time, And About Which We Ought To Be More Solicitous; Since Without It We Can Do Nothing In This World.

Love Is The Hardest Lesson In Christianity; But, For That Reason, It Should Be Most Our Care To Learn It.

We Need To Stop Arguing About Christ And Start Living Like Christ.

There Can Be No Friendship Where There Is No Freedom. Friendship Loves A Free Air, And Will Not Be Fenced Up In Straight And Narrow Enclosures.

Some Men Do As Much Begrudge Others A Good Name, As They Want One Themselves: And Perhaps That Is The Reason Of It.

Never Esteem People (including Yourself) More Because They Have Money, Nor Think Less Of Anyone (including Yourself) Because They Lack It. Virtue Is The Only Just Reason For Respecting Anyone, Lack Of Virtue The Only Reason For Holding Anyone In Low Regard.

Death Is Only A Horizon, And A Horizon Is Only The Limit Of Your Sight. Open Your Eyes To See More Clearly.

There Is A Truth And Beauty In Rhetoric; But It Oftener Serves Ill Turns Than Good Ones.

Truth And Beauty

The Wisdom Of Nations Lies In Their Proverbs, Which Are Brief And Pithy. Collect And Learn Them; They Are Notable Measures Of Directions For Human Life; You Have Much In Little; They Save Time In Speaking; And Upon Occasion May Be The Fullest And Safest Answer.

Five Things Are Requisite To A Good Officer — Ability, Clean Hands, Despatch, Patience, And Impartiality.

And He That Is Taught To Live Upon Little, Owes More To His Father's Wisdom, Than He That Has A Great Deal Left Him, Does To His Father's Care.

They That Censure, Should Practice. Or Else Let Them Have The First Stone, And The Last Too.

Let The People Think They Govern And They Will Be Governed.

Democracies Have

Death Is But Crossing The World, As Friends Do The Seas; They Live In One Another Still. For They Must Needs Be Present, That Love And Live In That Which Is Omnipresent. In This Divine Glass, They See Face To Face; And Their Converse Is Free As Well As Pure. This Is The Comfort Of Friends, That Though They May Be Said To Die, Yet Their Friendship And Society Are, In The Best Sense, Ever Present, Because Immortal.

True Godliness Doesn't Turn Men Out Of The World, But Enables Them To Live Better In It, And Excites Their Endeavors To Mend It. ...we Have Nothing That We Can Call Our Own; No, Not Our Selves: For We Are All But Tenants, And At Will, Too, Of The Great Lord Of Our Selves, And The Rest Of This Great Farm, The World That We Live Upon.

I Know No Religion That Destroys Courtesy, Civility, And Kindness.

If You Protect A Man From Folly, You Will Soon Have A Nation Of Fools.

There Can Be No Friendship Where There Is No Freedom. Friendship Loves A Free Air, And Will Not Be Penned Up In Straight And Narrow Enclosures. It Will Speak Freely, And Act So Too; And Take Nothing Ill Where No Ill Is Meant; Nay, Where It Is, 'twill Easily Forgive, And Forget Too, Upon Small Acknowledgments.

Forgive And Forget

But Make Not More Business Necessary Than Is So; And Rather Lessen Than Augment Work For Thyself.

Time Is What We Want Most, But What We Use Worst.

Death Then, Being The Way And Condition Of Life, We Cannot Love To Live If We Cannot Bear To Die.

To Be A Man's Own Fool Is Bad Enough, But The Vain Man Is Everybody's.

The Jealous Are Troublesome To Others, But A Torment To Themselves.

Though Our Savior's Passion Is Over, His Compassion Is Not.

Every Stroke Our Fury Strikes Is Sure To Hit Ourselves At Last.

What Man In His Right Mind Would Conspire His Own Hurt? Men Are Beside Themselves When They Transgress Against Their Convictions.

Where Thou Art Obliged To Speak, Be Sure Speak The Truth: For Equivocation Is Half Way To Lying, As Lying, The Whole Way To Hell.

Dislike What Deserves It, But Never Hate: For That Is Of The Nature Of Malice; Which Is Almost Ever To Persons, Not Things, And Is One Of The Blackest Qualities Sin Begets In The Soul.

If Thou Rise With An Appetite, Thou Art Sure Never To Sit Down Without One.

Justice Is Justly Represented Blind, Because She Sees No Difference In The Parties Concerned. She Has But One Scale And Weight, For Rich And Poor, Great And Small.

Men Being Born With A Title To Perfect Freedom And Uncontrolled Enjoyment Of All The Rights And Privileges Of The Law Of Nature. No One Can Be Put Out Of His Estate And Subjected To The Political View Of Another, Without His Consent.

For Nothing Reaches The Heart But What Is From The Heart, Or Pierces The Conscience But What Comes From A Living Conscience

Never Give Out While There Is Hope; But Hope Not Beyond Reason, For That Shows More Desire Than Judgement.

Let Us See What Love Can Do.

Between A Man And His Wife Nothing Ought To Rule But Love. Authority Is For Children And Servants, Yet Not Without Sweetness.

Love Labor: For If Thou Dost Not Want It For Food, Thou Mayest For Physic. It Is Wholesome For Thy Body And Good For Thy Mind.

The Usefullest Truths Are Plainest; And While We Keep To Them, Our Differences Cannot Rise High.

It Is Not Only A Troublesome But Slavish To Be Nice [fastidious].

[i]t Is Impossible That Any People Of Government Should Ever Prosper, Where Men Render Not Unto God, That Which Is God's, As Well As To Caesar, That Which Is Caesar's.

They That Love Beyond The World Cannot Be Separated By It. Death Cannot Kill What Never Dies.

The Wisdom Of Nations Lies In Their Proverbs, Which Are Brief And Pithy.

We Are Told Truly That Meekness And Modesty Are The Rich And Charming Garments Of The Soul. The Less Showy Our Outward Attire Is, The More Distinctly And Brilliantly Does The Beauty Of These Inner Garments Shine.

They Have A Right To Censure That Have A Heart To Help.

The Only Fountain In The Wilderness Of Life, Where Man Drinks Of Water Totally Unmixed With Bitterness, Is That Which Gushes For Him In The Calm And Shady Recess Of Domestic Life.

Sense Shines With Double Lustre When Set In Humility.

All Excess Is Ill, But Drunkenness Is Of The Worst Sort. It Spoils Health, Dismounts The Mind, And Unmans Men. It Reveals Secrets, Is Quarrelsome, Lascivious, Impudent, Dangerous And Mad. In Fine, He That Is Drunk Is Not A Man: Because He Is So Long Void Of Reason, That Distinguishes A Man From A Beast.

Do What Good Thou Canst Unknown, And Be Not Vain Of What Ought Rather To Be Felt Than Seen.

A Good End Cannot Sanctify Evil Means; Nor Must We Ever Do Evil, That Good May Come Of It... It Is As Great Presumption To Send Our Passions Upon God's Errands, As To Palliate Them With God's Name... We Are Too Ready To Retailiate, Rather Than Forgive, Or Gain By Love And Information. And Yet We Could Hurt No Man That We Believe Loves Us. Let Us Try Then What Love Will Do: For If Men Did Once See We Love Them, We Should Soon Find They Would Not Harm Us. Force May Subdue, But Love Gains: And He That Forgives First, Wins The Laurel.

People Are More Afraid Of The Laws Of Man Than Of God, Because Their Punishment Seems To Be Nearest.

The Secret Of Happiness Is To Count Your Blessings While Others Are Adding Up Their Troubles.

There Is A Troublesome Humor Some Men Have, That If They May Not Lead, They Will Not Follow; But Had Rather A Thing Were Never Done, Than Not Done Their Own Way, Tho' Other Ways Very Desirable.

They That Marry For Money Cannot Have The True Satisfaction Of Marriage; The Requisite Means Being Wanting.

Is It Reasonable To Take It Ill, That Anybody Desires Of Us That Which Is Their Own? All We Have Is The Almighty's; And Shall Not God Have His Own When He Calls For It?

Avoid Flatterers, For They Are Thieves In Disguise.

There Can Be No Friendship Where There Is No Freedom.

The Remedy Often Proves Worse Than The Disease.

If Thou Thinkest Twice Before Thou Speakest Once, Thou Wilt Speak Twice The Better For It.

You Are Now Fixed At The Mercy Of No Governor That Comes To Make His Fortune Great; You Shall Be Governed By Laws Of Your Own Making And Live A Free, And If You Will, A Sober And Industrious Life. I Shall Not Usurp The Right Of Any, Or Oppress His Person. God Has Furnished Me With A Better Resolution And Has Given Me His Grace To Keep It.

Children, Fear God; That Is To Say, Have An Holy Awe Upon Your Minds To Avoid That Which Is Evil, And A Strict Care To Embrace And Do That Which Is Good.

The Country Is Both The Philosopher's Garden And His Library, In Which He Reads And Contemplates The Power, Wisdom And Goodness Of God.

The Usefulest Truths Are The Plainest.

If Thou Wouldst Be Happy, Bring Thy Mind To Thy Condition, And Have An Indifferency For More Than What Is Sufficient.

Show Is Not Substance; Realities Govern Wise Men.

Method Goes Far To Prevent Trouble In Business: For It Makes The Task Easy, Hinders Confusion, Saves Abundance Of Time, And Instructs Those That Have Business Depending, Both What To Do And What To Hope.

Let Us Try What Love Will Do.

Men Must Be Governed By God Or They Will Be Ruled By Tyrants.

They That Soar Too High, Often Fall Hard.

The Best Recreation Is To Do Good.

Man, Being Made Reasonable, And So A Thinking Creature, There Is Nothing More Worthy Of His Being Than The Right Direction And Employment Of His Thoughts; Since Upon This Depends Both His Usefulness To The Public, And His Own Present And Future Benefit In All Respects.

God Is Better Served In Resisting A Temptation To Evil Than In Many Formal Prayers.

No Religion Is Better Than An Unnatural One.

A Garden, An Elaboratory, A Work - House, Improvements And Breeding, Are Pleasant And Profitable Diversions To The Idle And Ingenious: For Here They Miss Ill Company, And Converse With Nature And Art; Whose Variety Are Equally Grateful And Instructing; And Preserve A Good Constitution Of Body And Mind.

Clear Therefore Thy Head, And Rally, And Manage Thy Thoughts Rightly, And Thou Wilt Save Time, And See And Do Thy Business Well; For Thy Judgment Will Be Distinct, Thy Mind Free, And The Faculties Strong And Regular.

The Country Life Is To Be Preferred, For There We See The Works Of God; But In Cities Little Else But The Works Of Men. And The One Makes A Better Subject For Contemplation Than The Other.

Death Is But Crossing The World, As Friends Do The Seas; They Live In One Another Still.

I Shall Pass Through Life But Once. Let Me Show Kindness Now, As I Shall Not Pass This Way Again.

Nothing Shows Our Weakness More Than To Be So Sharp-sighted At Spying Other Men's Faults, And So Purblind About Our Own.

It Is A Severe Rebuke Upon Us, That God Makes Us So Many Allowances, And We Make So Few To Our Neighbour.

Rarely Promise, But, If Lawful, Constantly Perform.

Keeping Promises

For Disappointments, That Come Not By Our Own Folly, They Are The Trials Or Corrections Of Heaven: And It Is Our Own Fault, If They Prove Not Our Advantage.

Humility And Knowledge In Poor Clothes Excel Pride And Ignorance In Costly Attire.

We Have A Call To Do Good, As Often As We Have The Power And Occasion.

A Vain Man Is A Nauseous Creature: He Is So Full Of Himself That He Has No Room For Anything Else, Be It Never So Good Or Deserving.

Never Marry But For Love; But See That Thou Lov'st What Is Lovely.

She Is But Half A Wife That Is Not, Nor Is Capable Of Being, A Friend.

Those Who Live To Live Forever, Never Fear Dying.

It Is The Difference Betwixt Lust And Love That This Is Fixed, That Volatile. Love Grows, Lust Wastes By Enjoyment.

Justice Is The Insurance Which We Have On Our Lives And Property. Obedience Is The Premium Which We Pay For It.

No Pain, No Palm; No Thorns, No Throne; No Gall, No Glory; No Cross, No Crown.

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.

Government Seems To Me To Be A Part Of Religion Itself - A Thing Sacred In Its Institutions And Ends.

The Tallest Trees Are Most In The Power Of The Winds, And Ambitious Men Of The Blasts Of Fortune.

Above All Things Endeavor To Breed Them Up The Love Of Virtue, And That Holy Plain Way Of It Which We Have Lived In, That The World In No Part Of It Get Into My Family. I Had Rather They We're Homely Than Finely Bred As To Outward Behavior; Yet I Love Sweetness Mixed With Gravity, And Cheerfulness Tempered With Sobriety.

Haste Makes Work Which Caution Prevents.

Wit Gives An Edge To Sense, And Recommends It Extremely.

You Are Englishmen; Mind Your Privileges, Give Not Away Your Right.

Make Few Resolutions, But Keep Them Strictly

To Do Evil That Good May Come Of It Is For Bunglers In Politics As Well As Morals.

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.

In All Debates, Let Truth Be Thy Aim, Not Victory, Or An Unjust Interest.

Anything Less Than Full Justice Is Cruelty.

Peace Can Only Be Secured By Justice; Never By Force Of Arms.

Truth Never Lost Ground By Enquiry.

If Thy Debtor Be Honest And Capable, Thou Hast Thy Money Again, If Not With Increase, With Praise; If He Prove Insolvent, Don't Ruin Him To Get That Which It Will Not Ruin Thee To Lose, For Thou Art But A Steward.

Choose A Friend As Thou Dost A Wife, Till Death Separate You.

Did We Believe A Final Reckoning And Judgment; Or Did We Think Enough Of What We Do Believe, We Would Allow More Love In Religion Than We Do; Since Religion It Self Is Nothing Else But Love To God And Man. Love Is Indeed Heaven Upon Earth; Since Heaven Above Would Not Be Heaven Without It: For Where There Is Not Love; There Is Fear: But Perfect Love Casts Out Fear. Love Is Above All; And When It Prevails In Us All, We Shall All Be Lovely, And In Love With God And One With Another.

He That Lives In Love Lives In God.

If We Would Mend The World, We Should Mend Ourselves; And Teach Our Children To Be, Not What We Are, But What They Should Be.

Governments, Like Clocks, Go From The Motion Men Give Them, And As Governments Are Made And Moved By Men, So By Them They Are Ruined Too. Wherefore Governments Rather Depend Upon Men, Than Men Upon Governments. Let Men Be Good, And The Government Cannot Be Bad; If It Be Ill, They Will Cure It. But If Men Be Bad, Let The Government Be Never So Good, They Will Endeavour To Warp And Spoil It To Their Turn.

If We Are But Sure The End Is Right, We Are Too Apt To Gallop Over All Bounds To Compass It; Not Considering The Lawful Ends May Be Very Unlawfully Attained.

If Thou Wouldst Conquer Thy Weakness, Thou Must Never Gratify It. No Man Is Compelled To Evil: His Consent Only Makes It His. It Is No Sin To Be Tempted, But To Be Overcome.

We Are Too Careless Of Posterity; Not Considering That As They Are, So The Next Generation Will Be.

Passion Is A Sort Of Fever In The Mind, Which Ever Leaves Us Weaker Than It Found Us.

It Were Endless To Dispute Upon Everything That Is Disputable.

'tis No Sin To Be Tempted, But To Be Overcome.

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