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Anything less than full justice is cruelty.
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There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.
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If thou wouldst be happy, bring thy mind to thy condition, and have an indifferency for more than what is sufficient.
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The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.
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To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
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Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.
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A vain man is a nauseous creature: he is so full of himself that he has no room for anything else, be it never so good or deserving.
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Truth never lost ground by enquiry.
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But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.
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Though our Savior's passion is over, his compassion is not.
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It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.
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Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
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They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
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Disappointments that aren't a result of our own foolishness are a testing of our faith or a correction from heaven, and it is our own fault if these disappointments don't work for our own good.
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In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
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What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions.
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The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.
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If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise; if he prove insolvent, don't ruin him to get that which it will not ruin thee to lose, for thou art but a steward.
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There is a troublesome humor some men have, that if they may not lead, they will not follow; but had rather a thing were never done, than not done their own way, tho' other ways very desirable.
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The way, like the cross, is spiritual: that is an inward submission of the soul to the will of God, as it is manifested by the light of Christ in the consciences of men, though it be contrary to their own inclinations.
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True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
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A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.
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Oppression makes a poor country.
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Let us try what love will do.
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