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

Unless Virtue Guide Us Our Choice Must Be Wrong.

Let Us Try What Love Will Do.

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

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.

Oppression Makes A Poor Country.

Perfect Love Casteth Out Fear.

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.

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

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

Rarely Promise, But, If Lawful, Constantly Perform.

Keeping Promises

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.

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

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.

Men Are Generally More Careful Of The Breed Of Their Horses And Dogs Than Of Their Children.

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.

Show Is Not Substance; Realities Govern Wise Men.

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

No Religion Is Better Than An Unnatural One.

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

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

Love Grows, Lust Wastes By Enjoyment.

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

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.

Death Cannot Kill That Which Does Not Die.

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

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

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?

The Usefulest Truths Are The Plainest.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Anything Less Than Full Justice Is Cruelty.

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.

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

He That Lives In Love Lives In God.

The Best Recreation Is To Do Good.

Avoid Flatterers, For They Are Thieves In Disguise.

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

Make Few Resolutions, But Keep Them Strictly

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

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

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

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

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

Haste Makes Work Which Caution Prevents.

Be Rather Bountiful, Than Expensive.

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

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

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

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

Sense Shines With Double Lustre When Set In Humility.

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

A Good End Cannot Sanctify Evil Means; Nor Must We Ever Do Evil That Good May Come Of It. We Are Too Ready To Retaliate, Rather Than Forgive, Or Gain By Love And Information. And Yet We Could Hurt No Man That We Believe Loves Us. Let Us, Then, Try What Love Will Do: For If Men Do Once See That 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.

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

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.

Knowledge Is The Treasure Of A Wise Man.

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.

I Expect To Pass Through This World But Once. Any Good Therefore That I Can Do ... Let Me Do It Now.

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?

Death Cannot Kill What Never Dies.

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.

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

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

There Can Be No Friendship Where There Is No Freedom.

If A Civil Word Or Two Will Render A Man Happy, He Must Be A Wretch Indeed Who Will Not Give Them To Him. Such A Disposition Is Like Lighting Another Man's Candle By One's Own, Which Loses None Of Its Brilliancy By What The Other Gains.

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.

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

It Were Endless To Dispute Upon Everything That Is Disputable.

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.

No Man Is Fit To Command Another That Cannot Command Himself.

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

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

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

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

By Liberty Of Conscience, We Understand Not Only A Mere Liberty Of The Mind, In Believing Or Disbelieving This Or That Principle Or Doctrine; But The Exercise Of Ourselves In A Visible Way Of Worship, Upon Our Believing It To Be Indispensably Required At Our Hands, That If We Neglect It For Fear Of Favor Of Any Mortal Man, We Sin And Incur Divine Wrath.

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.

Patience And Diligence, Like Faith, Remove Mountains.

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

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.

A True Friend Freely, Advises Justly, Assists Readily, Adventures Boldly, Takes All Patiently, Defends Courageously, And Continues A Friend Unchangeably.

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

Those Who Live To Live Forever, Never Fear Dying.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Force May Make Hypocrites, But It Can Never Make Converts.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

My Prison Shall Be My Grave Before I Will Budge A Jot; For I Owe My Conscience To No Mortal Man.

[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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Less Judgment Than Wit Is More Sail Than Ballast. Yet It Must Be Confessed That Wit Given An Edge To Sense, And Recommends It Extremely.

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.

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

Love Labour: For If Thou Dost Not Want It For Food, Thou Mayest For Physique. It Is Wholesome For The Body, And Good For The Mind. It Prevents The Fruits Of Idleness, Which Many Times Come Of Nothing To Do, And Leads Many To Do What Is Worse Than Nothing.

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.

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

Democracies Have

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Truth Never Lost Ground By Enquiry.

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

Truth And Beauty

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.

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.

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

Many Able Gardeners And Husbandmen Are Yet Ignorant Of The Reason Of Their Calling; As Most Artificers Are Of The Reason Of Their Own Rules That Govern Their Excellent Workmanship. But A Naturalist And Mechanick Of This Sort Is Master Of The Reason Of Both, And Might Be Of The Practice Too, If His Industry Kept Pace With His Speculation; Which Were Every Commendable; And Without Which He Cannot Be Said To Be A Complete Naturalist Or Mechanick.

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.

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.

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

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

Friendship Is The Union Of Spirits.

Nothing But A Good Life Can Fit Men For A Better One Hereafter.

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

It Is Wise Not To Seek A Secret, And Honest Not To Reveal One.

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.

Men Not Living To What They Know, Cannot Blame God, That They Know No More.

That Plenty Should Produce Either Covetousness Or Prodigality Is A Perversion Of Providence; And Yet The Generality Of Men Are The Worse For Their Riches.

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.

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.

Tis The Glory Of A Man To Vail To Truth; As It Is The Mark Of A Good Nature To Be Easily Entreated.

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

To Hazard Much To Get Much Has More Of Avarice Than Wisdom.

For We Put The Power In The People.

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

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

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.

We Are Apt To Love Praise, But Not Deserve It. But If We Would Deserve It, We Must Love Virtue More Than That.

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

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

Avoid Popularity; It Has Many Snares, And No Real Benefit.

Rewards And Recognition

That Which The People Called Quakers Lay Down As A Main Fundamental In Religion Is This- That God, Through Christ, Hath Placed A Principle In Every Man, To Inform Him Of His Duty, And To Enable Him To Do It; And That Those That Live Up To This Principle Are The People Of God, And Those That Live In Disobedience To It, Are Not God's People, Whatever Name They May Bear, Or Profession They May Make Of Religion. This Is Their Ancient, First, And Standing Testimony: With This They Began, And This They Bore, And Do Bear To The World.

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.

Never Chide With Anger, But Instruction.

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

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.

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

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

The Remedy Often Proves Worse Than The Disease.

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.

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.

Where Charity Keeps Pace With Gain, Industry Is Blessed.

Religion Is Nothing Else But Love Of God And Man.

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

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

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

Naked Truth Needs No Shift.

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

Wherefore, Brethren, Let Us Be Careful Neither To Out-go Our Guide, Nor Yet Loiter Behind Him; Since He That Makes Haste, May Miss His Way, And He That Stays Behind, Lose His Guide.

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

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

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.

Let Us See What Love Can Do.

I Have Sometimes Thought That People Are, In A Sort, Happy, That Nothing Can Put Out Of Countenance With Themselves, Though They Neither Have Nor Merit Other People's.

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

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.

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.

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

Only Trust Thyself, And Another Shall Not Betray Thee.

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

Next To God, Thy Parents.

They That Soar Too High, Often Fall Hard.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Always Remember To Bound Thy Thoughts To The Present Occasion.

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

[tho]ugh Death Be A Dark Passage; It Leads To Immortality, And That Is Recompense Enough For Suffering Of It. And Yet Faith Lights Us, Even Through The Grave....and This Is The Comfort Of The Good, And The Grave Cannot Hold Them, And They Live As They Die. For Death Is No More Than A Turning Of Us Over From Time To Eternity.

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

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

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

It Is A Cruel Folly To Offer Up To Ostentation So Many Lives Of Creatures, As To Make Up The State Of Our Treats.

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

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