To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
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Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he couldJeremy Taylor
He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.
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Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
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Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.
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God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
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Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
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