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Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after.
It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.
Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
Govern thy Life and Thoughts, as if the whole World were to see the one, and read the other.
Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.
Thou oughtest to be nice, even to Superstition, in keeping thy Promises; and therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making them.
Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.