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• The road to perseverance lies by doubt.
• Charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds an hospital, so does pride. In this they differ: charity gives her glory…
• Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance…
• Let all thy joys be as the month of May,And all thy days be as a marriage day.
• Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb.
• Wickedness is its own punishment.
• If thy daughter marry well, thou hast found a son; if not, thou hast lost a daughter.
• Physicians, of all men, are most happy; whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth; and what faults they commit, the…
• As all things eternal and primordial reappear, so all things mortal return to the earth. Honor, old age, probity, justice, constance, virtue,…
• He that gives all, though but little, gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the…
• Proportion thy charity to the strength of thine estate, lest God proportion thine estate to the weakness of thy charity. Let the…
• Our God and Souldiers we alike adore,Evn at the Brink of danger; not before:After deliverance, both alike required;Our Gods forgotten, and our…

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