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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.

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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.

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

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Cunning To Wise, Is As An Ape To A Man.

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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

Religion Is The Fear Of God, And Its Demonstration Good Works; And Faith Is The Root Of Both: For Without Faith We Cannot Please God; Nor Can We Fear What We Do Not Believe.

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.

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The Public Must And Will Be Served.

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Friendship Is The Next Pleasure We May Hope For: And Where We Find It Not At Home, Or Have No Home To Find It In, We May Seek It Abroad. It Is An Union Of Spirits, A Marriage Of Hearts, And The Bond Thereof Virtue.

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.

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The Unspoken Word Never Defeats One. What One Does Not Say Does Not Have To Be Explained.

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.

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Knowledge Is The Treasure Of A Wise Man.

Make Few Resolutions, But Keep Them Strictly

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Knowledge Is The Treasure, But Judgment The Treasurer, Of A Wise Man.

If Thou Wouldst Rule Well, Thou Must Rule For God, And To Do That, Thou Must Be Ruled By Him. Those Who Will Not Be Governed By God Will Be Ruled By Tyrants.

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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.

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.

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

It Is Profitable Wisdom To Know When We Have Done Enough: Much Time And Pains Are Spared In Not Flattering Ourselves Against Probabilities.

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

Show Is Not Substance; Realities Govern Wise Men.

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

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

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Inquiry Is Human; Blind Obedience Brutal. Truth Never Loses By The One But Often Suffers By The Other.

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

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It Would Be Far Better To Be Of No Church Than To Be Bitter Of Any.

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.

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Haste Makes Work Which Caution Prevents.

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

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Never Despise What You Don't Understand.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Let Us Then Try What Love Will Do: For If Men Do Once See We Love Them, We Should Soon Find They Would Not Harm Us.

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It Is A Coal From God's Altar Must Kindle Our Fire; And Without Fire, True Fire, No Acceptable Sacrifice.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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