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True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.
And he that is taught to live upon little, owes more to his father's wisdom, than he that has a great deal left him, does to his father's care.
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
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