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Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.

He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

Love is friendship set on fire.

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.

Dive on them and squash them if you must.

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.