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Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.
If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.
Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.
Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
No people can be truly happy... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences
We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice.
Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.
To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
Charity is ... a universal remedy against discord, and an holy cement for mankind.
God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.
Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.
The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.
Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue
Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.
It is safer to learn than teach; and who conceals his opinion has nothing to answer for.
There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.
If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.
Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too.
To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.
The usefullest truths are plainest; and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.
I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.
Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.
The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.
We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be.
Tis the glory of a man to vail to truth; as it is the mark of a good nature to be easily entreated.
People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now.
Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.
Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.
Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.
It is a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour.
If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.
A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.
It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.