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- "Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason. "
- "An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of ..."
- "Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it. "
- "Compare a Solomon, an Aristotle, or an Archimedes, to a child that newly begins to ..."
- "Consult the acutest poets and speakers, and they will confess that their quickest and most ..."
- "Deeds always overbalance; and downright practice speaks more plainly than the fairest profession. "
- "Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus. "
- "Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities. "
- "God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but ..."
- "God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much ..."
- "He is a treacherous supplanter and underminer of the peace of all families and societies. ..."
- "In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness and intention of ..."
- "In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not ..."
- "It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; ..."
- "Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter ..."
- "Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart. "
- "Men are atheistical because they are first vicious, and question the truth of Christianity because ..."
- "Novelty is the great parent of pleasure. "
- "Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together. "
- "Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument. "
- "Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but ..."
