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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.

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The Wisdom Of Nations

William Penn

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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.

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To Be Furious In Religion Is To Be Irreligiously Religious.

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.

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

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.

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

Only Trust Thyself, And Another Shall Not Betray Thee.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

There Can Be No Friendship Where There Is No Freedom.

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

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

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

Friendship Is The Union Of Spirits.

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

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

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.

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

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

No Religion Is Better Than An Unnatural One.

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.

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

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

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

Never Chide With Anger, But Instruction.

The Best Recreation Is To Do Good.

Let Us Try What Love Will Do.

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

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

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.

The Usefulest Truths Are The Plainest.

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 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.

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

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

Be Rather Bountiful, Than Expensive.

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

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

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

Haste Makes Work Which Caution Prevents.

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

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

Those Who Live To Live Forever, Never Fear Dying.

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

Perfect Love Casteth Out Fear.

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

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.

They That Soar Too High, Often Fall Hard.

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.

Where Charity Keeps Pace With Gain, Industry Is Blessed.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Rewards And Recognition

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.

The Remedy Often Proves Worse Than The Disease.

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

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

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.

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

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

Religion Is Nothing Else But Love Of God And Man.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Naked Truth Needs No Shift.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Love Grows, Lust Wastes By Enjoyment.

Truth Never Lost Ground By Enquiry.

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

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.

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

Neither Despise Nor Oppose What Thou Dost Not Understand.

[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 Public Must And Will Be Served.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Anything Less Than Full Justice Is Cruelty.

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

Nor Must We Always Be Neutral Where Our Neighbors Are Concerned: For Tho' Meddling Is A Fault, Helping Is A Duty.

It Were Endless To Dispute Upon Everything That Is Disputable.

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

Eat... To Live, And Do Not Live To Eat.

[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.

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.

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

Let Us See What Love Can Do.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Democracies Have

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

Patience And Diligence, Like Faith, Remove Mountains.

Death Cannot Kill That Which Does Not Die.

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

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

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

Sense Shines With Double Lustre When Set In Humility.

Silence Is Wisdom Where Speaking Is Folly.

Next To God, Thy Parents.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Death Cannot Kill What Never Dies.

Less Judgment Than Wit Is More Sail Than Ballast.

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.

Rarely Promise, But, If Lawful, Constantly Perform.

Keeping Promises

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

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.

Nor Yet Be Overeager In Pursuit Of Any Thing; For The Mercurial Too Often Happen To Leave Judgment Behind Them, And Sometimes Make Work For Repentance.

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.

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

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

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

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

For We Put The Power In The People.

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.

Unless Virtue Guide Us Our Choice Must Be Wrong.

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.

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

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

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

Never Despise What You Don't Understand.

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

Oppression Makes A Poor Country.

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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