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All things are artificial; for nature ix the art of God. - [Art] An argument from authority is but a weak kind of proof,--it being but a topical probation, and an inartificial argument depending on naked asseveration. - [Authority] Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous. - [Charity] Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others; and let the world be deceived in thee, as they are in the lights of heaven. - [Greatness] By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also. - [Compassion] Do the devils lie? No; for then even hell could not subsist. - [Lying] Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks. - [Epitaphs] He is like to be mistaken who makes choice of a covetous man for a friend, or relieth upon the reed of narrow and poltroon friendship. Pitiful things are only to be found in the cottages of such breasts; but bright thoughts, clear deeds, constancy, fidelity, bounty and generous honesty are the gems of noble minds, wherein (to derogate from none) the true, heroic English gentleman hath no peer. - [Gentlemen] "He that humbleth himself shall be exalted." This great law of the kingdom of God is, in the teaching of Christ, inscribed over its entrance-gate. - [Humility] He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself. - [Egotism] He who must needs have company, must needs have sometimes bad company. - [Company] I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not agreeing in that from which within a few days I might dissent myself. - [Opinion] I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less. - [Knowledge] I would not live over my hours past . . . not unto Cicero's ground because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse. - [Life] It is we that are blind, not fortune; because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her blind, and hoodwink the providence of the Almighty. - [Fortune] Light is but the shadow of God. - [Light] Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion. - [Reason] Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once. - [Health] Miserable men commiserate not themselves; bowelless unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels. - [Misery] Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good. - [Obstinacy] Of all men, a philosopher should be no swearer; for an oath, which is the end of controversies in law, cannot determine any here, where reason only must induce. - [Oaths] Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtues of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes or envy struck dumb. - [Appreciation] Study prophecies when they are become histories. - [Prophecy (Prophesy)] The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves. - [Vice] There is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us, though indeed it hath no history of what it was before us, and cannot tell how it entered into us. - [Being] Displaying page 1 of 4 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4
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