A book that is shut is but a block.
Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.
He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
It is the property of fools to be always judging.
Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery.
Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.
He that plants trees loves others besides himself.
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
Govern thy Life and Thoughts, as if the whole World were to see the one, and read the other.
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.
'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.
There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.
The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.
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