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To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping. - [Religion] True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. It is a great virtue: it covers folly, keeps secrets, avoids disputes, and prevents sin. - [Silence] Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers. - [Truth] We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be. - [Posterity] Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides. - [Superfluity] What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions. - [Conviction] When thou art obliged to speak, be sure to speak the truth; for equivocation is half-way to lying, and lying is the whole way to hell. - [Lying : Tongue] Whoever is right, the persecutor must be wrong. - [Persecution : Principles] Lest, selling that noble inheritance for a poor mess of perishing pottage, you never enter into His eternal rest. - No Cross no Crown (pt. II, ch. XX, sec. XXIII) [Birth] No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. - No Cross, No Crown [Religion] Naked Truth needs no shift. - Title of a Broadside [Truth] Displaying page 4 of 4 for this author: << Prev 1 2 3 [4]
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