| Quotes |
Topic |
| Doubt | The road to perseverance lies by doubt. |
| Enjoyment | Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety.". |
| Forgetfulness | Our God and soldier we alike adore, When at the brink of ruin, not before; After deliverance both alike requited, Our God forgotten, and our soldiers slighted. |
| Lilies | Is not this lily pure? What fuller can procure A white so perfect, spotless clear As in this flower doth appear? |
| Luxury | Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail. |
| Mammon | What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold. |
| Medicine | Physicians, of all men, are most happy: whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth and what faults they commit, the earth covereth. |
| Mercy | 'Tis vain to flee; till gentle Mercy show Her better eye, the farther off we go, The swing of Justice deals the mightier blow. |
| Merit | The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient. |
| Proverbs | The next way home's the farthest way about. |
| Proverbs | A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much. |
| Proverbs | He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity. |
| Proverbs | That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes. |
| Proverbs | While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost. |
| Rest | Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest. |
| Umbrellas | See, here's a shadow found; the human nature Is made th' umbrella to the Deity, To catch the sunbeams of thy just Creator; Beneath this covert thou may'st safely lie. |
| Worry | Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived. |
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