We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.
You are Englishmen; mind your privileges, give not away your right.
It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.
We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice.
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.
If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.
Five things are requisite to a good officer — ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality.
Tis the glory of a man to vail to truth; as it is the mark of a good nature to be easily entreated.
It would go a long way to caution and direct people in their use of the world that they would better studied and known in the creation of it. For how could man find the confidence to abuse it, while they should see the Great Creator stare them in the face, in all and every part thereof?
Let us try what love will do.
Interest has the security, though not the virtue of a principle. As the world goes, it is the surest side; for men daily leave both relations and religion to follow it.
False-dealing travels a short road, and surely detected.
The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.
Haste makes work which caution prevents.
Death cannot kill that which does not die.
All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.
There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this world.
No religion is better than an unnatural one.
Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator.
It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].
There is a troublesome humor some men have, that if they may not lead, they will not follow; but had rather a thing were never done, than not done their own way, tho' other ways very desirable.
For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.
Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.
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