Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
Fools measure actions, after they are done, by the event; wise men beforehand, by the rules of reason and right. The former look to the end, to judge of the act. Let me look to the act, and leave the end with God.
Every day is a little life, and our whole life is but a day repeated. Therefore live every day as if it would be the last. Those that dare lose a day, are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it are desperate.
The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself.
How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page.
Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.
For every bad there might be a worse; and when one breaks his leg let him be thankful it was not his neck.
Try to be of some use to others.
It is not sin that kills the soul, but impenitence.
We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.
Let me know myself; let others guess at me.
It is not the bee's touching on the flowers that gathers the honey, but her abiding for a time upon them, and drawing out the sweet.
A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction.
He that taketh his own cares upon himself loads himself in vain with an uneasy burden. I will cast all my cares on God; He hath bidden me; they cannot burden Him.
Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
Words are as they are taken, and things are as they are used. There are even cursed blessings.
What I have done is worthy of nothing but silence and forgetfulness, but what God has done for me is worthy of everlasting and thankful memory.
Even the best things ill used become evils; and, contrarily, the worst things used well prove good.
Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.
Christian society is like a bundle of sticks laid together, whereof one kindles another. Solitary men have fewest provocations to evil, but, again, fewest incitations to good. So much as doing good is better than not doing evil will I account Christian good-fellowship better than an hermitish and melancholy solitariness.
Satan would seem to be mannerly and reasonable; making as if he would be content with one-half of the heart, whereas God challengeth all or none: as, indeed, He hath most reason to claim all that made all. But this is nothing but a crafty fetch of Satan; for he knows that if he have any part, God will have none: so the whole falleth to his share alone.
I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together. The sun, rising and declining, makes long shadows; at mid day, when he is highest, none at all.
Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no more on me, because He sees I can bear no more.
Perfection is the child of time.
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