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Gossip |
| A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
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Catholicism |
| A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.
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Passion |
| A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
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Judges and Judgment |
| A man is not good or bad for one action.
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Surprise |
| A man surprised is half beaten.
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Wrongness |
| A small demerit extinguishes a long service.
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Friends and Friendship |
| A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.
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Chance |
| A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
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Absence |
| Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
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Anger |
| Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.
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Courtesy |
| All doors open to courtesy.
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Difficulties |
| All things are difficult before they are easy.
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Determination |
| An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
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Cheerfulness |
| An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
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Anger |
| Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.
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Excuses |
| Bad excuses are worse than none.
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Friends and Friendship |
| Be a friend to thyself, and others will be too.
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Purpose |
| Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.
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Example |
| Benevolence It is the glory of the true religion that it inculcates and inspires a spirit of benevolence. It is a religion of charity, which none other ever was. Christ went about doing good; he set the example to his disciples, and they abounded in it
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Appreciation |
| Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us.
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Promises |
| Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
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Friends and Friendship |
| Better fare hard with good men than feast with bad.
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Fear |
| Better hazard once than always be in fear.
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Blindness |
| Blindness hatred is blind, as well as love.
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Weather |
| Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
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Books and Reading |
| A book that is shut is but a block.
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Fear |
| A coward's fear can make a coward valiant.
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Fear |
| A danger foreseen is half avoided.
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Alcohol and Alcoholism |
| A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.
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Paradise |
| A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!
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Juries |
| A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.
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Slander |
| A generous confession disarms slander.
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Friends and Friendship |
| A good friend is my nearest relation.
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Faults |
| A good garden may have some weeds.
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Fear |
| A good life fears not life, nor death.
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Charity |
| Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
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Wives |
| Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
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Jealousy |
| Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched.
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Compliments |
| Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
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Proverbs |
| Constant popping off of proverbs will make thee a byword thyself.
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Contentment |
| Contentment consists not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
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Truth |
| Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.
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Debt |
| Debt is the worst poverty.
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Marriage |
| Deceive not thyself by overexpecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young
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Despair |
| Despair gives courage to a coward.
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Hate |
| Do nothing hastily but catching of fleas.
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Will and Will Power |
| Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
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Gratitude |
| Eaten bread is soon forgotten.
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Perception |
| Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest.
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Self-Reliance |
| Every tub must stand on its own bottom.
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