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Praise thyself never. - [Modesty] Precepts are like seeds; they are little things which do much good; if the mind which receives them has a disposition, it must not be doubted that his part contributes to the generation, and adds much to that which has been collected. - [Precepts] Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal. - [Precepts] Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find. - [Precepts] Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it. - [Proverbs] Reading nourisheth the wit; and when it is wearied with study, it refresheth it, yet not without study. - [Reading] Real improvement is of slow growth only. - [Improvement] Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship. - [Superstition] Remember, not one penny can we take with us into the unknown land. - [Possession] Resistance to oppression is second nature. - [Oppression] Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb. - [Proverbs] Self-denial is the best riches. - [Self-denial] Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her. - [Servitude] Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit. - [Shame] Shun no toil to wake yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one. - [Science] Simple is the language of truth. - [Proverbs] So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow. - [Proverbs] So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you. - [Proverbs] Some pretend want of power to make a competent return; and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that makes a man ashamed of requiting an obligation, because it is a confession that he has received one. - [Obligation] Speech is the index of the mind. - [Speech] Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them. - [Avarice] Success consecrates the foulest grimes. - [Success] Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness. - [Proverbs] Successful villany is called virtue. - [Proverbs] Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots? - [Ambition] Displaying page 8 of 22 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 [8] 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
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