Tis admirable to consider, how Powerful the Kings are, yet they move by the Breath of their People.
Children, Fear God; that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good.
Liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.
Children had rather be making of Tools and Instruments of Play; Shaping, Drawing, Framing, and Building, &c. than getting some Rules of Propriety of Speech by Heart: And those also would follow with more Judgment, and less Trouble and Time.
If men be good, government cannot be bad.
If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided
If thou art clean and warm, it is sufficient; for more doth but rob the Poor, and please the Wanton.
To be a man’s own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody’s.
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
They have a right to censure that have a heart to help: the rest is cruelty, not justice.
Have a care, therefore, where there is more sail than ballast.
The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.
Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature . . . no one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.
Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.
Let us then try what love can do to mend a broken world.
O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
The Humble, Meek, Merciful, Just, Pious and Devout Souls, are everywhere of one religion; and when Death has taken off the Mask, they will know one another, though the divers Liveries they wear here make them Strangers.
Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.
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