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Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

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Wit is a happy and striking way of expressing a thought.

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Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

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To be furious in religion, is to be irreligiously religious.

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Have a care therefore where there is more sail than ballast.

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No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

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A man, like a watch, is to be valued for his manner of going.

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Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.

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It were better to be of no Church, than to be bitter for any.

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Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator.

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It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.

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Always remember to bound thy thoughts to the present occasion.

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It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.

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Fidelity has enfranchised slaves, and adopted servants to be sons

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lov'st what is lovely.

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Love labor:… It is wholesome for thy body and good for thy mind.

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The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

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Inquire often, but judge rarely, and thou wilt not often be mistaken.

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For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

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We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.

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The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.

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To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's.

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A man in business must put up many affronts if he loves his own quiet.

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Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.

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He that criticizes out of Passion raises Revenge sooner than Repentance.

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Be sure that religion cannot be right that a man is the worse for having.

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Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.

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In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

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Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.

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