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A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.
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A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!
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A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.
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A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
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A good garden may have some weeds.
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A good horse should be seldom spurred.
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A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
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A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.
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A man is not good or bad for one action.
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A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.
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A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat them, the better they be.
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All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
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All doors open to courtesy.
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All things are difficult before they are easy.
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
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Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
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Bad excuses are worse than none.
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Better a tooth out than always aching.
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Better be alone than in bad company.
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Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after.
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Care and diligence bring luck.
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Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
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Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
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Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
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Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
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Despair gives courage to a coward.
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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
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Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
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Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.
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Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
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He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
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He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.
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He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.
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He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
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He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.
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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.
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He that travels much knows much.
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He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
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Health is not valued till sickness comes.
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If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
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If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
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In fair Weather prepare for foul.
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It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.
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Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
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Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.
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Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side ;of the face can smile while the other is pinched.
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Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
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Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.
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Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
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Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.
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Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
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No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
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One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
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Poor men's reasons are not heard.
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Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.
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Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
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Pride will spit in pride's face.
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Scalded cats fear even cold water.
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Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.
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The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.
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The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
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There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
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Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
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'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.
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'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.
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'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
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Today is yesterday's pupil.
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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
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Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.
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Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.
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We have all forgot more than we remember.
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We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
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With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.
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With foxes we must play the fox.
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Category: Religious Quotes
Occupation: Clergyman
Date of Birth: June 19, 1608
Date of Death: August 16, 1661
Nationality: English





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