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A good word is an easy obligation, but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs us nothing. - [Civility : Courtesy] A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man than this, that when the injury began on his part, the kindness should begin on ours. - [Kindness] Abstinence is many times very helpful to the end of religion. - [Abstinence] Are we proud and passionate, malicious and revengeful? Is this to be like-minded with Christ, who was meek and lowly? - [Christ] Convulsive anger storms at large; or pale And silent, settles into full revenge. - [Anger] Fear is that passion which hath the greatest power over us, and by which God and His laws take the surest hold of us. - [Fear] He who provides for this life, but takes no care for eternity, is wise for a moment, but a fool forever. - [Fools] How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground before they would fall into an exact poem,--yea, or so much as make a good discourse in prose? And may not a little book be as easily made by chance as this great volume of the world? - [Creation] If a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with mankind, never more need their good opinion or good word, it were then no great matter (speaking as to the concernments of this world), if a man spent his reputation all at once, and ventured it at one throw; but if he be to continue in the world, and would have the advantage of conversation while he is in it, let him make use of truth and sincerity in all his words and actions; for nothing but this will last and hold out to the end. - [Reputation] If God were not a necessary being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men. - [God] If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude and real care as they do for this life, they could not fail of heaven. - [Eternity] If the show of any thing be good for any thing, I am sure sincerity is better; for why does any man dissemble, or seem to be that which he is not, but because he thinks it good to have such a quality as he pretends to? - [Sincerity] Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind. - [Ignorance] In matters of great concern, and which must be done, there is no surer argument of a weak mind than irresolution; to be undetermined where the case is so plain, and the necessity so urgent. To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating, and drinking, and sleeping, from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed. - [Indecision : Irresolution] Integrity gains strength by use. - [Honesty] It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where Truth is not the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep and betray herself one time or other. - [Action] It is pleasant to be virtuous and good, because that is to excel many others; it is pleasant to grow better, because that is to excel ourselves; it is pleasant to mortify and subdue our lusts, because that is victory; it is pleasant to command our appetites and passions, and to keep them in due order within the bounds of reason and religion, because this is empire. - [Goodness] It was a smart reply that Augustus made to one that ministered this comfort of the fatality of things: this was so far from giving any ease to his mind, that it was the very thing that troubled him. - [Fate] Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy; but he that can moderate these affections will find ease in his mind. - [Malice] Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity. - [God] No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his strength and contracting his capacities. - [Appetite] Of some calamity we can have no relief but from God alone; and what would men do, in such a case if it were not for God? - [Calamities] Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing. - [Opinion] Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be. - [Sincerity] Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man. - [Confidence] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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