| Quotes |
Topic |
| Abstinence | Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one. |
| Censure | They have a right to censure that have a heart to help. |
| Confidence | Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee. |
| Death | For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. |
| Death | He that lives to forever, never fears dying. |
| Flattery | To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's. |
| Flattery | Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise. |
| Government | Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. |
| Government | Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. |
| Government | Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants. |
| Knowledge | He that has more knowledge than judgement, is made for another man's use more than his own. |
| Name | Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves, and perhaps that is the reason of it. |
| Neutrality | A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him. |
| Oppression | Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world. |
| Ostentation | Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen. |
| Passion | Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. |
| Past | Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns. |
| Popularity | Avoid popularity, it has many snares, and no real benefit. |
| Reward | It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better. |
| Reward | He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end. |
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