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The House of Commons is called the Lower House, in twenty Acts of Parliament; but what are twenty Acts of Parliament amongst Friends?
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We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn; whereas , if we take it all together, and considered what went before and what followed after, we should find it meant no such thing.
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There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.
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A wise man should never resolve upon anything, at least, never let the world know his resolution, for if he cannot reach that he is ashamed.
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Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.
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Preaching, in the first sense of the word, ceased as soon as ever the gospel was written.
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Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.
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A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.
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Ceremony keeps up things: 'tis like a penny glass to a rich spirit, or some excellent water; without it the water were spilt, and the spirit lost.
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A gallant man is above ill words.
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I have taken much pains to know everything that is esteemed worth knowing amongst men; but with all my reading, nothing now remains to comfort me at the close of this life but this passage of St. Paul: "It is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners." To this I cleave, and herein do I find rest.
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Money makes a man laugh.
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Ignorance of the law excuses no man.
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Nothing is text but what is spoken of in the Bible and meant there for person and place; the rest is application; which a discreet man may do well; but it is his scripture, not the Holy Ghost's. First, in your sermons use your logic, and then your rhetoric; rhetoric without logic is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root.
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All things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only we set it apart to his service - just as a gardener brings his master a basket of apricots, and presents them; his lord thanks him, and perhaps gives him something for his pains, and yet the apricots were as much his lord's before as now.
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If the prisoner should ask the judge whether he would be content to be hanged, were he in his case, he would answer no. Then, says the prisoner, do as you would be done to.
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To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we run after him again to save us.
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No man is the wiser for his learning
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The world cannot be governed without juggling.
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Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.
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First, in your sermons, use your logic, and then your rhetoric; Rhetoric without logic, is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root; yet more are taken with rhetoric than logic, because they are caught with fine expressions when they understand not reason.
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Those that govern most make least noise.
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Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people.
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Every law is a contract between the king and the people and therefore to be kept.
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Men say they are of the same religion, for quietness' sake; but if the matter were well examined, you would scarce find three anywhere of the same religion on all points.
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There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.
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Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.
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Religion is like the fashion, one man wears his doublet slashed, another lashed, another plain; but every man has a doublet; so every man has a religion. We differ about the trimming.
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We look after religion as the butcher did after his knife, when he had it in his mouth.
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The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.
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It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess.
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We see the judges look like lions, but we do not see who moves them.
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Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.
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Preachers say: do as I say, not what I do
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In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.
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Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up dignity. In gluttony there must be eating, in drunkenness there must be drinking; 'tis not the eating, and 'tis not the drinking that must be blamed, but the excess. So in pride.
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Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.
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Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.
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Humility is a virtue all men preach, none practice, and yet everybody is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servants, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity.
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Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.
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Preachers say, "Do as I say, not as I do." But if a physician had the same disease upon him that I have, and he should bid me do one thing and he do quite another, could I believe him?
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Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
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He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat.
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No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.
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In a troubled state we must do as in foul weather upon a river, not think to cut directly through, for the boat may be filled with water; but rise and fall as the waves do, and give way as much as we conveniently can.
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Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is.
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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.
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Wit and wisdom are born with a man.
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Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state.
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Twas an unhappy Division that has been made between Faith and Works; though in my Intellect I may divide them, just as in the Candle I know there is both Light and Heat. But yet, put out the Candle, and they are both gone.
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Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
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Opinion is something wherein I go about to give reasons why all the world should think as I think.
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Gentelmen heve ever been more temperate in their religion than common people, as having more reason.
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Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all the actions of our lives, 'tis the most meddled with by other people.
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The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
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