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What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!

And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case.

A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself.

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

Perfection is the child of time.

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.

God loveth adverbs; and cares not how good, but how well.

...Covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have.

There is no enemy can hurt us but by our own hands. Satan could not hurt us, if our own corruption betrayed us not. Afflictions cannot hurt us without our own impatience. Temptations cannot hurt us, without our own yieldance. Death could not hurt us, without the sting of our own sins. Sins could not hurt us, without our own impenitence.

Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.

Infidelity and faith look both through the perspective glass, but at contrary ends. Infidelity looks through the wrong end of the glass; and, therefore, sees those objects near which are afar off, and makes great things little,-diminishing the greatest spiritual blessings, and removing far from us threatened evils. Faith looks at the right end, and brings the blessings that are far off in time close to our eye, and multiplies God's mercies, which, in a distance, lost their greatness.

Every day is a little life, and our whole life is but a day repeated. Therefore live every day as if it would be the last. Those that dare lose a day, are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it are desperate.

If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction.

I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together. The sun, rising and declining, makes long shadows; at mid day, when he is highest, none at all.

For every bad there might be a worse; and when one breaks his leg let him be thankful it was not his neck.

I first adventure, follow me who list And be the second English satirist

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.

The proud man hath no God; the envious_x000D_man hath no neighbor; the angry man_x000D_hath not himself.