- 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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- 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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- 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 men will not be governed by God, they will be ruled by tyrants.
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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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- Never marry but for love but see that thou lovest what is lovely.
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- Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.
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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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- 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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- 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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- To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
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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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- 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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- Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
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