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The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.
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The best recreation is to do good.
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The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.
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Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
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It is a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour.
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Wherefore, brethren, let us be careful neither to out-go our guide, nor yet loiter behind him; since he that makes haste, may miss his way, and he that stays behind, lose his guide.
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That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches.
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Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.
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Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness; the last without the first begets prodigality.
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To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
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Religion itself is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better.
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Love labour: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physique. It is wholesome for the body, and good for the mind. It prevents the fruits of idleness, which many times come of nothing to do, and leads many to do what is worse than nothing.
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Always remember to bound thy thoughts to the present occasion.
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That all persons living in this province, who confess and acknowledge the one Almighty and eternal God, to be the Creator, Upholder and Ruler of the world; and that hold themselves obliged in conscience to live peaceably and justly in civil society, shall, in no ways, be molested or prejudiced for their religious persuasion, or practice, in manners of faith and worship, nor shall they be compelled, at any time, to frequent or maintain any religious worship, place or ministry whatever.
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Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.
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People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.
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Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator.
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Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
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It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.
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The usefulest truths are the plainest.
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