To be like Christ is to be a Christian.
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Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature . . . no one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.
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Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
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If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch, indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.
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If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not considering the lawful ends may be very unlawfully attained.
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Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But, if men be bad, let the government be ever so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn.
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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 secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.
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Believe nothing against another but on good authority and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.
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No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory, no glory no cross, no crown.
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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 from the arguments of its opposers.
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Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
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No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
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They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
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Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
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If men will not be governed by God, they will be ruled by tyrants.
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Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.
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True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
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True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
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They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice
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Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
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Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
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Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns
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Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
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The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.
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To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
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Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
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Never marry but for love but see that thou lovest what is lovely.
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Religion is nothing else but love of God and man
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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.
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Men must be governed by God, or they will be ruled by tyrants.
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