It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.
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A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
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.
Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
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