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“Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him?”
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“Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.”
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“A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.”
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“Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.”
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“Every Christian is endued with a power whereby he is enabled to resist temptations.”
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“He who is sincere hath the easiest task in the world, for, truth being always consistent with itself, he is put to no trouble about his words and actions; it is like traveling in a plain road, which is sure to bring you to your journey's end better than byways in which many lose themselves.”
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“If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude and real care as they do for this life, they could not fail of heaven.”
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“Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.”
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“None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions.”
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“With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend.”
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“If they be principles evident of themselves, they need nothing to evidence them.”
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“Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.”
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“Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.”
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“Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy; but he that can moderate these affections will find ease in his mind.”
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“Fear is that passion which hath the greatest power over us, and by which God and His laws take the surest hold of us.”
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“The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them; and starves himself in the midst of plenty, and most unnaturally cheats and robs himself of that which is his own; and makes a hard shift, to be as poor and miserable with a great estate, as any man can be without it.”
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“When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.”
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“Whatever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual, because it brings a man under everlasting jealousy and suspicion, so that he is not believed when he speaks the truth, nor trusted when perhaps he means honestly.”
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“The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves.”
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“We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.”
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“Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.”
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“Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by.”
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“If a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with mankind, never more need their good opinion or good word, it were then no great matter (speaking as to the concernments of this world), if a man spent his reputation all at once, and ventured it at one throw; but if he be to continue in the world, and would have the advantage of conversation while he is in it, let him make use of truth and sincerity in all his words and actions; for nothing but this will last and hold out to the end.”
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“Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.”
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“Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness.”
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“Some things will not bear much zeal; and the more earnest we are about them, the less we recommend ourselves to the approbation of sober and considerate men.”
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“Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.”
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“If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state.”
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“Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.”
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