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The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - common sense and perseverance.
God has made no one absolute.
Virtue is the truest liberty.
To be gentle is the test of a lady.
There is no one subsists by himself alone.
Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.
Reason and right give the quickest despatch.
How many would die did not hope sustain them.
Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.
Honesty is a warrant of far more safety than fame.
Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to.
There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy
In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time.
The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing.
Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.
Men are like wine,--not good before the lees of clownishness be settled.
Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.
Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.
Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it.
Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.
Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
The greatest results in life are usually attained by common sense and perseverance.
Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment
Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.
By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man.
Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.
Take heed of a speedy professing friend; love is never lasting which flames before it burns.
When two friends part they should lock up one another's secrets, and interchange their keys.
That man is but of the lower part of the world that is not brought up to business and affairs.
Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.
It is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven who desires to go thither alone.
He that, when he should not, spends too much, shall, when he would not, have too little to spend.
If ever I should affect injustice, it would be in this, that I might do courtesies and receive none.
He who would be singular in his apparel had need have something superlative to balance that affectation.
The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us.
We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.
It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.
A combed writing will cost both sweat and the rubbing of the brain. And combed I wish it, not frizzled or curled.
It is a most unhappy state to be at a distance with God: man needs no greater infelicity than to be left to himself.
Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long remove, she discerneth God, as if He were nearer at hand.
It is much safer to reconcile an enemy than to conquer him; victory may deprive him of his poison, but reconciliation of his will.
Truth and fidelity are the pillars of the temple of the world; when these are broken, the fabric falls, and crushes all to pieces.
I love the man that is modestly valiant; that stirs not till he most needs, and then to purpose. A continued patience I commend not.
Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and in that man I will show you one who will never be admitted into heaven.
Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he who bestows one.
Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part of wisdom is the best.
Shall I speak truly what I now see below? The World is all a carkass, smoak and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just Nothing.
Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy.
