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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.

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William Penn

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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.

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

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

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.

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

Next To God, Thy Parents.

Unless Virtue Guide Us Our Choice Must Be Wrong.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

There Can Be No Friendship Where There Is No Freedom.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Democracies Have

Let Us See What Love Can Do.

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.

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.

For We Put The Power In The People.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Religion Is Nothing Else But Love Of God And Man.

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.

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

Friendship Is The Union Of Spirits.

They That Soar Too High, Often Fall Hard.

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

Let Us Try What Love Will Do.

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.

[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.

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

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

Always Remember To Bound Thy Thoughts To The Present Occasion.

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

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

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.

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.

Rarely Promise, But, If Lawful, Constantly Perform.

Keeping Promises

Never Despise What You Don't Understand.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Less Judgment Than Wit Is More Sail Than Ballast.

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

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

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.

Death Cannot Kill What Never Dies.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Neither Despise Nor Oppose What Thou Dost Not Understand.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Make Few Resolutions, But Keep Them Strictly

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

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?

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

Silence Is Wisdom Where Speaking Is Folly.

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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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Death Cannot Kill That Which Does Not Die.

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.

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.

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.

He That Lives In Love Lives In God.

The Public Must And Will Be Served.

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

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

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

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.

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

Where Charity Keeps Pace With Gain, Industry Is Blessed.

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.

No Religion Is Better Than An Unnatural One.

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

Avoid Flatterers, For They Are Thieves In Disguise.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Experience Is A Safe Guide.

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

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

Truth And Beauty

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

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.

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

Show Is Not Substance; Realities Govern Wise Men.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Truth Never Lost Ground By Enquiry.

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

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

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

Naked Truth Needs No Shift.

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

Knowledge Is The Treasure Of A Wise Man.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

Never Chide With Anger, But Instruction.

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

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 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 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.

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.

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

The Best Recreation Is To Do Good.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

To Be Furious In Religion Is To Be Irreligiously Religious.

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

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.

Oppression Makes A Poor Country.

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.

Sense Shines With Double Lustre When Set In Humility.

Be Rather Bountiful, Than Expensive.

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

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

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.

Patience And Diligence, Like Faith, Remove Mountains.

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

Only Trust Thyself, And Another Shall Not Betray Thee.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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