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To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.
Never marry but for love; but see that thou lov'st what is lovely.
The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
Next to God, thy parents.
Experience is a safe guide.
Naked Truth needs no shift.
Let us see what love can do.
Let us try what love will do.
Perfect love casteth out fear.
Oppression makes a poor country.
The best recreation is to do good.
Death cannot kill what never dies.
Truth never lost ground by enquiry.
He that lives in love lives in God.
For we put the power in the people.
Friendship is the union of spirits.
The public must and will be served.
Be rather bountiful, than expensive.
Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.
The usefulest truths are the plainest.
To be like Christ is to be a Christian.
Eat... to live, and do not live to eat.
Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a Man.
Never despise what you don't understand.
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
Haste makes work which caution prevents.
Never chide with anger, but instruction.
They that soar too high, often fall hard.
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
Death cannot kill that which does not die.
Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.
Anything less than full justice is cruelty.
Make few resolutions, but keep them strictly
No religion is better than an unnatural one.
'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.
Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.
Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.
Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.
He that lives to live forever, never fears dying.
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.
Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
Choose thy clothes by thine own eyes, not another's.
There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility.
