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If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.
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In the rush and noise of life, as you have intervals, step home within yourselves and be still. Wait upon God, and…
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Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lov'st what is lovely.
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A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For…
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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.
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All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals…
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If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him... Those who…
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A man in business must put up many affronts if he loves his own quiet.
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We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice.
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Drunkenness, spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans the man.
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Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgement.
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None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and…
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Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.
— Robert Herrick
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If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.
— Mary Astell
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Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.
— Izaak Walton
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Thus you may multiply each stone 4 times & no more for they will then become oyles shining in ye dark and…
— Isaac Newton
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To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another…
— Mary Astell
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Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.
— John Lyly
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Love is indeed Heaven upon Earth; since Heaven above would not be Heaven without it: For where there is not Love; there…
— William Penn
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