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- Mind
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True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
- More
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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
- Make
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Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.
- Mind
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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.
- Most
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The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
- Christian
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be like Christ is to be a Christian.
- Betray
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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
- Father
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He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
- Kings
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Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
- Humble
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
- Even
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- Nov 07, 2020
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
- Promise
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
He that lives to live forever, never fears dying.
- Obedience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
- Forgives
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- Nov 07, 2020
Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
- Godliness
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Lust
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020