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There is no word or action but may be taken with two hands,--either with the right hand of charitable construction, or the sinister interpretation of malice and suspicion; and all things do succeed as they are taken. To construe an evil, action well is but a pleasing and profitable deceit to myself; but to misconstrue a good thing is a treble wrong,--to myself, the action, and the author. - [Action] There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears. - [Slander] These who give not till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer. - [Covetousness] This field is so spacious that it were easy for a man to lose himself in it; and if I should spend all my pilgrimage in this walk, my time would sooner end than my way. - [Quotations] Those that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, desperate. - [Time] Those who give not till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer. - [Covetousness] Tranquillity consisteth in a steadiness of the mind; and how can that vessel that is beaten upon by contrary waves and winds, and tottereth to either part, be said to keep a steady course? Resolution is the only mother of security. - [Quiet] Try to be of some use to others. - [Benevolence] Virtues go ever in troops; they go so thick, that sometimes some are hid in the crowd; which yet are, but appear not. - [Virtue] We are often infinitely mistaken, and take the falsest measures, when we envy the happiness of rich and great men; we know not the inward canker that eats out all their joy and delight, and makes them really much more miserable than ourselves. - [Envy] What I have done is worthy of nothing but silence and forgetfulness, but what God has done for me is worthy of everlasting and thankful memory. - [Gratitude] Words are as they are taken, and things are as they are used. There are even cursed blessings. - [Blessings] Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy, but emulation, or laudable ambition, is actually founded in humility; for it evidently implies that we have a low opinion of our present attainments, and think it necessary to be advanced. - [Emulation] For whom he means to make an often guest, One dish shall serve; and welcome make the rest. - Come Dine with Me [Guests] There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowells of the earth, many a fair pearle in the bosome of the sea, that never was seene nor never shall bee. - Contemplations--Veil of Moses (I, VI, p. 872) [Ocean] Death borders upon our birth; and our cradle stands in our grave. - Epistles (decade III, ep. II) [Death] Fond fool! six feet shall serve for all thy store, And he that cares for most shall find no more. - Satires (no. III, second series) [Graves] Displaying page 3 of 3 for this author: << Prev 1 2 [3]
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