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Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.
The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses, but proclaims, his debts.
Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
No man's religion ever survives his morals.
It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion.
Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.
Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness of its Heavenly Maker.
An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity
Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.
God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.
He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only a cruel opportunity of feeling his misery, of burying his better part, and surviving himself.
He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model and limits infinite power to finite apprehensions.
A true friend is the gift of God, and He only who made hearts can unite them.
Aristotle was but a wreck of an Adam, and Athens but the rubbish of an Eden. How completely sin has defaced the divine image in man! That man has lost his righteousness and happiness is clearly evident as we look at the state of the world today!
Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world.
Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.
Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame.
He who does a kindness to an ungrateful person, sets his seal to a flint and sows his seed upon the sand; on the former he makes no impression, and from the latter finds no product.
Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.
