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“The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.”
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“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.”
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“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”
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“A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.”
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“A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.”
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“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.”
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“No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.”
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“The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.”
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“In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.”
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“Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.”
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“They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.”
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“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.”
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“Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.”
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“If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.”
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“If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.”
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“It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.”
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“O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.”
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“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.”
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“Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.”
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“No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.”
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“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.”
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“They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.”
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“For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it.”
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“Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.”
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“Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.”
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