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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.

-William Penn

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Neither Great Nor Good

William Penn

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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.

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

Be Rather Bountiful, Than Expensive.

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.

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

To Be Innocent Is To Be Not Guilty; But To Be Virtuous Is To Overcome Our Evil Inclinations.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Silence Is Wisdom Where Speaking Is Folly.

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.

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

It Were Endless To Dispute Upon Everything That Is Disputable.

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.

[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.

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

Rewards And Recognition

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.

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

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

Next To God, Thy Parents.

Always Remember To Bound Thy Thoughts To The Present Occasion.

Anything Less Than Full Justice Is Cruelty.

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.

Religion Is Nothing Else But Love Of God And Man.

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

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

[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.

The Remedy Often Proves Worse Than The Disease.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Naked Truth Needs No Shift.

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

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

Experience Is A Safe Guide.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Rarely Promise, But, If Lawful, Constantly Perform.

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Interest Has The Security, Though Not The Virtue Of A Principle. As The World Goes, It Is The Surest Side; For Men Daily Leave Both Relations And Religion To Follow It.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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.

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The Usefulest Truths Are The Plainest.

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

Avoid Flatterers, For They Are Thieves In Disguise.

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

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

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

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

Love Grows, Lust Wastes By Enjoyment.

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

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.

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

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.

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

They That Soar Too High, Often Fall Hard.

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

Let Us Try What Love Will Do.

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.

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

Let Us See What Love Can Do.

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

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.

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.

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.

To Be Furious In Religion Is To Be Irreligiously Religious.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

No Religion Is Better Than An Unnatural One.

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

Truth And Beauty

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

Unless Virtue Guide Us Our Choice Must Be Wrong.

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

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

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.

Sense Shines With Double Lustre When Set In Humility.

Neither Despise Nor Oppose What Thou Dost Not Understand.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

The Best Recreation Is To Do Good.

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.

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.

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

Never Chide With Anger, But Instruction.

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.

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

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

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

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

He That Lives In Love Lives In God.

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.

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.

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

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.

Patience And Diligence, Like Faith, Remove Mountains.

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

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

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.

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.

There Can Be No Friendship Where There Is No Freedom.

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.

Perfect Love Casteth Out Fear.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Show Is Not Substance; Realities Govern Wise Men.

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

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

Only Trust Thyself, And Another Shall Not Betray Thee.

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

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

Truth Never Lost Ground By Enquiry.

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.

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

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.

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 Public Must And Will Be Served.

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

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

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

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

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.

Death Cannot Kill What Never Dies.

Make Few Resolutions, But Keep Them Strictly

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

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.

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?

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

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

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 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.

Death Cannot Kill That Which Does Not Die.

Never Despise What You Don't Understand.

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

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.

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