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To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.

Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it.

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.

It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.

Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.

Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.

He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.

'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.

He that's secure is not safe.

Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.

Three can keep a secret, if two are dead.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees.

Sin is not harmful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

Much virtue in Herbs, little in men.