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Try to be of some use to others.
Perfection is the child of time.
The idle man is the devil's cushion.
The life of doctrine is in application.
He is great enough that is his own master.
Let me know myself; let others guess at me.
Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.
It is not sin that kills the soul, but impenitence.
A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself.
God loveth adverbs; and cares not how good, but how well.
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together.
The blood that is once inflamed with wine is apt to boil with rage.
A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.
I first adventure, follow me who list And be the second English satirist
Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.
He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.
...Covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have.
Our good purposes foreslowed are become our tormentors upon our deathbed.
There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.
Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
It is a shame for the tongue to cast itself upon the uncertain pardon of other's ears
[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes.
For whom he means to make an often guest, One dish shall serve; and welcome make the rest.
The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself.
We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.
Words are as they are taken, and things are as they are used. There are even cursed blessings.
Those who give not till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.
Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.
Even the best things ill used become evils; and, contrarily, the worst things used well prove good.
What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!
Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it.
Good prayers never come creeping home. I am sure I shall receive either what I ask, or what I should ask.
For every bad there might be a worse; and when one breaks his leg let him be thankful it was not his neck.
Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction.
If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world.
And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case.
How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page.
Virtues go ever in troops; they go so thick, that sometimes some are hid in the crowd; which yet are, but appear not.
Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.
Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no more on me, because He sees I can bear no more.
Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.
A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
Not only commission makes a sin. A man is guilty of all those sins he hateth not. If I cannot avoid all, yet I will hate all.
It is not the bee's touching on the flowers that gathers the honey, but her abiding for a time upon them, and drawing out the sweet.
It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on Divine truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest, strongest Christian.
Mark in what order: first, our calling; then, our election; not beginning with our election first. By our calling, arguing our election.
Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion. This doth make them fools which otherwise are not, and show them to be fools which are so.
Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs out before the hour.