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- Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgement.
- Man, being made reasonable, and so a thinking creature, there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his…
- ...death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly...
- To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
- There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since…
- Did we believe a final Reckoning and Judgment; or did we think enough of what we do believe, we would allow more Love in Religion…
- He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.
- Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.
- [Tho]ugh death be a dark passage; it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even…
- For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
- He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to…
- Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
- We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
- Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
- Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
- It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.
- Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than…
- Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers
- 1 - 2 - 3 To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's. William Penn To be like…
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