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Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.

The road to perseverance lies by doubt.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

I see no virtue where I smell no sweat.

He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.

Whose gold is double with a careful hand, His cares are double.

The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools.

God's pleasure is at the end of our prayers.

Reason can discover things only near,
sees nothing that's above her.

He that hath no cross deserves no crown.

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

The grave is sooner cloy'd than men's desire.

Afflictions clarify the soul;
And like hard masters, give more hard directions,
Tutoring the non-age of uncurbed affections.

Let all thy joys be as the month of May.

O who would trust this world, or prize what's in it,
That gives and takes, and chops and changes, ev'ry minute?

Poor thieves in halters we behold;
And great thieves in their chains of gold.

Heav'n is not always got by running.

Blessedness is promised to the peacemaker, not to the conqueror.

Obedience to truth known, is the king's highway to that which is still beyond us.

No man is born unto himself alone; Who lives unto himself, he lives to none.

Even such is man, whose glory lendsHis life a blaze or two, and ends.

To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.

The strong desires of man's insatiate breast may stand possess'd Of all that earth can give; but earth can give no rest.

Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys.

The place of charity, like that of God, is everywhere.

If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.

The light of the understanding, humility kindleth and pride covereth.

The world's an Inn; and I her guest.

Make thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation.

I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.

Afflictions clarify the soul.

Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful.

A lamb appears a lion, and we fear Each bush we see's a bear.

False world, thou ly'st: thou canst not lend The least delight: Thy favours cannot gain a friend, They are so slight.

Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb.

Neutrality is dangerous, whereby thou becomest a necessary prey to the conqueror.

The goods we spend we keep; and what we save
We lose; and only what we lose we have.

When two agree in their desire,
One sparke will set them both on fire.

Immortal life is something to be earned, By slow self-conquest, comradeship with Pain, And patient seeking after higher truths.

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.

And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.

It is the lot of man but once to die.

Death aims with fouler spiteAt fairer marks.

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.

How is the anxious soul of man befool'd in his desire, That thinks an hectic fever may be cool'd in flames of fire?

With a bloody flux of oaths vows deep revenge.

He that gives all, though but little, gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the quality of the givers.

The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown.

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action.

Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop.

To bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit.

My mind is my kingdom.

It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Charity is a naked child, giving honey to a bee without wings.

Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Whosoever obeyeth the devil, casteth himself down: for the devil may suggest, compel he cannot.

Is not this lily pure? What fuller can procure A white so perfect, spotless clear As in this flower doth appear?

Too much is a vanity; enough is a feast.

The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it ...

The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God.

Hath any wounded thee with injuries? Meet them with patience. Hasty words rankle the wound; soft language dresses it.

The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid,Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.

Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.

Gold is Caesar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Caesar's image, and thou hast God's.

My mind's my kingdom.

Borrow neither money nor time from your neighbor; both are of equal value.

The next way home's the farthest way about.

The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.

What well-advised ear regards What earth can say? Thy words are gold, but thy rewards Are painted clay.

No labor is hard, no time is long, wherein the glory of eternity is the mark we level at.

If thou hast no inferiors, have patience awhile, and thou shalt have no superiors. The grave requires no marshal.

Let grace conduct thee to the paths of peace.

Shine Son of glory, and my sinnes are goneLike twinkling Starres before the rising Sunne.

Seest thou good days? Prepare for evil times. No summer but hath its winter. He never reaped comfort in adversity that sowed not in prosperity.

The world is deceitful; her end is doubtful, her conclusion is horrible, her judge terrible, and her judgment is intolerable.

Take heed thou trust not the deceitful lap Of wanton Dalilah; the world's a trap.

And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.

Nor fire, nor rocks, can stop our furious minds, Nor waves, nor winds.

I'll ne'er distrust my God for cloth and bread while lilies flourish and the raven 's fed.

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'

Diogenes found more rest in his tub than Alexander on his throne.

Sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.

If thou be rich, strive to command thy money, lest it command thee.

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

A despairing heart is the true prophet of approaching evil; his actions may weave the webs of Fortune, but not break them.

Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.

What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold.

He that begins to live, begins to die.

If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory.

Wickedness is its own punishment.

Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.