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Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
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We need to stop arguing about Christ and start living like Christ.
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If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
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Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.
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Be rather bountiful, than expensive.
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Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.
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O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
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Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.
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Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.
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Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
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Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.
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We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
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Never despise what you don't understand.
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Tis the glory of a man to vail to truth; as it is the mark of a good nature to be easily entreated.
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Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.
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No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
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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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Make few resolutions, but keep them strictly
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